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How grief can permanently alter your worldview and sense of self

Before my father died I was optimistic and believed things worked out and now I feel like I am fundamentally a different darker person.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Loss shatters not just your heart but your basic assumptions about life, leaving you exiled from your former innocence.

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