In our society, many people struggle to determine if their grief after a loss is normal. After all, we don’t get to see other people grieve. Most people don’t grieve publicly and often feel they have ...
National Grief Awareness Day is Saturday Aug. 30. It’s a day dedicated to open communication on loss and bereavement to raise awareness about the experience of grief and the grieving process, to ...
In March 2022, a new diagnosis was added to the DSM-V, which is the handbook used by mental health providers and researchers to describe and classify groups of symptoms. Technically, this categorizes ...
Grief isn't just an emotional experience—there are also a number of serious physical symptoms that can sometimes show up in ways that might catch you off guard. Many people mistakenly believe that ...
Grief therapists share what unresolved grief looks like so you can identify it and seek the support you need to move forward. Maskot via Getty Images Grief is a normal, natural reaction to loss — such ...
For the past few years, we’ve been researching grief for a book we’re writing. When we started out, we were aware that you could experience grief for various reasons caused by loss. These can be as ...
The American Psychiatric Association added prolonged grief disorder to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2022, and though the move was not universally applauded—“There is no ...