Dealing With Grief

Dealing with grief is a sticky thing.  I have lost some key people in my life and its hard.  My dear Scottish Grandfather, Dan Paterson was the first great loss for me.  This happened when I was 11 years old.  The next fairly heavy loss was when a member of our church youth group died. That hit hard.  A young neighbor kid of my grandparents who used to live next door to them, and with whom us Burch kids used to play when we visited, died suddenly when I was very young and that was hard. My Chinese friend, Larry Gee and I got very close in junior high and I believe I experienced a lot of grief when he went to a different high school and I was no longer able to see him.
I have battled depression all of my life, and a psychologist once told me that my problem was that I was experiencing one grief episode after another because I was too loose with giving my heart away.  She suggested that I be cautious about making a lot of eye contact with the opposite sex when I was recovering from grief because I needed to heal first. I hope this advice helps some of you.