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When professional help contradicts parental love

My therapist says I need to let go of my dead son but he is all I have left and letting go feels like choosing to kill him myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Clinical models of healthy grieving can conflict with the parental need to maintain eternal connection with deceased children.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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