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How to grieve an absence rather than a loss

My therapist says I need to grieve my childhood but I do not know how to mourn something I never had in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of what should have been creates a grief with no clear object to mourn.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost childhood?”

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