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Grief and depression

Grief and depression can look alike from the outside, but one is a response to loss and the other is the nervous system itself shutting down—though grief can certainly tip into depression if it has nowhere to go. The distinction matters because depression often needs intervention, while grief needs permission to exist in all its forms.

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