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When Grief Feels Too Big to Handle

My best friend is dying of cancer and I keep pretending everything is normal because I do not know how to be with this much sadness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The magnitude of impending loss exceeds the current capacity to remain present with overwhelming emotional states.

Ideas that help explain it
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