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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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5 healing truths about grief, from an expert doctor

After losing her brother to cancer, a writer set out to understand the "rogue wave that took me out." A chief MD helps walk ...
Cody Delistraty wanted to get good at grief. After his mother died of melanoma when he was in his early twenties, he found, as he writes in his new book “The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss,” ...
We all know that it is normal to feel sad for a while when we lose a loved one, but grief is often much bigger than just sadness, making it hard to feel like yourself. You might even wonder if you are ...
Kelly Cervantes didn't necessarily set out to write a workbook on grief. The writer and advocate, who lost her daughter Adelaide to a rare form of epilepsy days before her 4th birthday in 2019, found ...