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When anger at the dead creates unbearable guilt cycles

I feel angry at my deceased mother for leaving me and then immediately guilty for being angry at someone who had no choice about dying from cancer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief's natural rage conflicts with the moral prohibition against blaming the blameless.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complicated grief — prolonged grief disorder?”

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