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 ...
Mental Health America, a national nonprofit organization that has a goal of promoting mental health as a critical part of overall wellness, says coping with death, whether it's the death of a relative ...
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 ...
The recently posted draft of DSM5 makes a seemingly small suggestion that would profoundly impact how grief is handled by psychiatry. It would allow the diagnosis of Major Depression even if the ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is an opinion column. There’s a sensation I hadn’t felt in years, lucky as I’ve been, but it found me again, this time on my living room couch. My wife and I had put the kids to bed. I picked up ...
Dear Annie: This is in response to “Frustrated Peacemaker,” the woman whose husband constantly corrects her 80-year-old mom, who has dementia. I recall the following training in a volunteer class: A: ...