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When grief feels too big to face

My best friend died in a car accident three weeks ago and everyone keeps telling me to talk about it but I just want to pretend it didn't happen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's refusal to accept unbearable reality is both protection and postponement of necessary pain.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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