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When grief makes you hold onto physical objects

It has been eight months since my father died and I still cannot throw away his coffee mug or wash the shirt he was wearing that last day at the hospital.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind clings to material remnants as anchors against the dissolution of relationship.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief as psychological process?”

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