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When friend groups split over complex grief after addiction death

Our friend died of an overdose after years of us trying to help and now half our group feels guilty we didn't do enough while the other half feels angry that we gave so much of ourselves for so long, and we can't seem to talk about it without everything falling apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different ways of processing relief and responsibility are fracturing the very relationships that could hold the complexity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief and relief — complex feelings after difficult deaths?”

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