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Why some people seek out more grief

I volunteered at hospice thinking it would help me process my own father's death, but instead I'm just collecting more losses and I don't know if this is healing or self-punishment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Serving the dying can become either a path to meaning-making or a compulsive re-enactment of unresolved loss.

Ideas that help explain it
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