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When unconventional family bonds create misunderstood grief

My grandmother raised me and died last year but my grief feels too big for what people expect grandparent grief to look like and I feel crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social scripts for mourning do not account for relationships that transcend traditional categories.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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