The Causes of Psychological Grief due to Emigration

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We could say that psychological grief is that set of emotions that combines sadness, anger, melancholy for missing our family, friends, the culture of our people, food, music, in short, in this psychological grief for emigration we miss everything.

Perhaps some people will be more affected than others, but in a large percentage of cases, the mourning for emigration arises in the lives of many people.

I witnessed it myself, when I saw my sister communicating with her daughter by whatsapp, where my niece from the United States told her that she missed her very much and that she would like to have her even if only to listen to her scolding.

As I knew my niece here in Venezuela, I know that she was not a very affectionate woman nor did she express her feelings, but being in another country and having emigrated from Venezuela to the United States, it is clearly evident that she has a migratory grief, where even though she has done well, she still lacks her mother's love.


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I am not that person who has had to emigrate, however having empathy for that group of people I imagine that there are several solutions to mitigate the consequences of a grief by emigration, among which I believe may be: