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When internal conversations with the deceased become compulsive

I have been having the same conversation with my dead brother in my head every single day for fourteen months and I know it is not healthy but I cannot stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Imagined dialogue has replaced the work of mourning with the illusion of ongoing relationship.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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