Ambiguous Loss: Understanding Uncertainty | Nicole Reidy | TEDxLewisUniversity

How do we make meaning out of a situation that doesn’t make sense? COVID-19 lacks clarity, certainty, and closure. COVID-19 is an ambiguous loss and is difficult to articulate. Ambiguous loss has never been more timely and present to the pandemic we are currently navigating. Join me in understanding ways to make sense of the loss and grief we are all suffering. Nicole Reidy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who earned her bachelor's degree in Social Work from Lewis University. Shortly after graduation, Nicole enrolled at Aurora University to earn her Masters of Social Work with a dual specialization in Gerontology and Healthcare. She continued at Aurora University to earn her Doctorate of Social Work and graduated in May of 2021. Nicole's journey of social work careers includes working with survivors of domestic violence, providing bereavement counseling, and supporting older adults and caregivers with mental health counseling. She is now working at University of Chicago Medicine as a Social Worker II in the Neurology Department, specifically with the Movement Related Disorders Clinic. Nicole's passions include working with older adults and assisting patients through grief and ambiguous loss. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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This is NOT entirely true!! Ambiguous Loss is a painful loss relating to those who have no closure. Missing children, dementia patients who don’t recognise their partner of decades, those lost and missing in war or even tsunamis. Dying of covid (or anything at all) has closure. Loved ones have the closure and knowledge of knowing WHAT happened to them, where they are and, most importantly, can move on and through the grief process. Those suffering from Ambiguous Loss CANNOT move - they are frozen - not knowing if there loved ones are alive or dead. With dementia type situations, they can’t move on - their loved one is still there to be cared for and in their lives - but at the same time gone. Death has nothing to do with ambiguous loss. Death = Closure. Ambiguous Loss = Limbo.

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I learned absolutely nothing about ambiguous loss.

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