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Why losing childhood homes can trigger disproportionate grief responses

My childhood home is being demolished next month and my dad who built it died last winter and I can't stop crying about a house.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical spaces can hold irreplaceable emotional significance that makes their loss feel like losing pieces of identity itself.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cumulative grief — multiple losses?”

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