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When professional grief categories feel like pathologizing love

My therapist says I have complicated grief but I think this is just what love looks like when the person you love is dead and cannot love you back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Clinical frameworks can minimize the profound rationality of refusing to accept devastating loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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