In 2022, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) added prolonged grief disorder (aka “complicated bereavement”) to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Since then, grief ...
When Kelly Edmonson’s son died, she was on a cruise ship. It was January 3, 2023, and Edmonson and her husband were ringing in the new year—their first as empty nesters—with a Caribbean vacation. She ...
At 33, I lost my husband to advanced adrenal cancer. Despite my master's in social work, the resulting immense sadness, anxiety, and fear were overwhelming. His funeral, just before Thanksgiving, made ...
Grief wears many faces. It can come from the death of a loved one, the end of a friendship, the loss of a beloved pet or the loss of something far less tangible but no less significant: a career, a ...