Viral Twitter Thread On The Ball And The Box Analogy For Grief

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Sep 1, 2019 6:00 PM EDT

This viral Twitter thread effectively breaks down what it's like living with grief. It features the "ball and box" analogy to illustrate living with grief, and many folks seem to be connecting deeply with it. 

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    the ball and the box - Text - 15:08 Thread Lauren Herschel @LaurenHerschel So grief is like this: There's a box with a ball in it. And a pain button. And no, I am not known for my art skills. THE BALL AND THE BOX -BALL PAIN RUTTON Tweet your reply 20 Σ
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    the ball and the box - Circle - 15:08 In the beginning, the ball is huge. You can't move the box without the ball hitting the pain button. It rattles around on its own in there and hits the button over and over. You can't control it - it just keeps hurting. Sometimes it seems unrelenting. Tweet your reply 20
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    the ball and the box - Text - 15:09 Over time, the ball gets smaller. It hits the button less and less but when it does, it hurts just as much. It's better because you can function day to day more easily. But the downside is that the ball randomly hits that button when you least expect it. Tweet your reply 20
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    the ball and the box - Text - 15:09 Thread Lauren Herschel @LaurenHerschel For most people, the ball never really goes away. It might hit less and less and you have more time to recover between hits, unlike when the ball was still giant. Ithought this was the best description of grief I've heard in a long time. 15:45 12/29/17 from Calgary, Alberta Twitter for iPhone 443 Retweets 4,104 Likes Lauren Herschel @Lauren... 12/29/17 I told my step dad about the ball in the box (with even worse pictures
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