Wellbeing Guide from Police Mutual Grief Awareness Week – Dec 2025

Grief Awareness Week is run by the Good Grief Trust Organisation. The aim of the week is to raise awareness of the impact of grief and to break the taboo around talking about grief. This year the theme is Growing with Grief, for more details click here.

Signs and symptoms of grief
There is not a correct way to feel when you are grieving. Bereavement, grief and loss will cause different symptoms and they affect people in different ways. Some of the most common symptoms include:
• – Shock and numbness
• – Overwhelming sadness
• – Tiredness or exhaustion
• – Anger – towards the person you’ve lost or the reason for your loss
• – Guilt – this could be due to many things, including not being with the person when they died, not saying something to them, or not being able to stop your loved one dying.
These feelings may not be there all the time and powerful feelings may appear unexpectedly.
For more details click here.

Read more from the wellbeing guide HERE