Any advice to help move forwards after grandparent death

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Hi All, I’ve name changed for this but I’ve been around for a long time. My grandad died a few days before Christmas, we were very close and since he died I have lost the will to do anything most of the time. I’d had a rough couple of years with a long term relationship break up, job changes during lockdown and house moves but by autumn last year I’d managed to drag myself back up and was enjoying life again. Now I feel like I’m back at the bottom of the hole and can’t find the energy to pull myself up. Everyone else seems to be carrying on and say things like ‘oh your grandad wouldn’t want you to be sad’ but it doesn’t help and I feel so lost. I probably need a kick up the arse to get moving, I’m worried because I’m finding it hard to get my work done but I just don’t feel anything and I’m so tired all the time. When will it get better? Does anyone have any advice to get me to snap out of it please?

I’m so sorry for your loss OP a few weeks is no time and those around you don’t sound hugely supportive. There’s nothing at all to snap out of. It could be their own way of dealing with things but there’s no correct way to grieve.
If you don’t have a very supportive friend who will listen and let you discuss your feelings I’d ask the GP to refer you for some bereavement counselling. Even if you do have someone to listen and not tell you to get over it I’d ask for a referral now anyway. You may find you feel stronger and don’t need the counselling when it comes up but it can’t hurt.
Family going through the same loss might be experiencing their grief differently and finding it helps them to be “moving on” and that’s fine for them.
Look at www.cruse.org.uk too

Thank you. That’s probably a good idea, I’m just worried that I can’t seem to pick up where I left off - I’ll take a look at the website thanks x

So sorry for your loss grief is hard to deal with, but it will get easier with time.

My DS’ recently lost their Lovely nan, my DS said that the ball in the jar analogy was exactly how he felt, if you Google it, it will come up, in a nut shell, the ball is the grief, it is massive and is squeezed into the jar, as the time goes on the grief doesn’t get smaller, instead the jar gets bigger.

You will always love & miss that special person, but as you learn to accept that they have passed, life will start to move forward. It is still very early days, we are 4 mths down the line, still tough days, tears sometimes.

Look after yourself, you will get through it.