Grieving

Should Doctors Learn to Grieve?

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.31.2012

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Barbara Coombs Lee

Grieving openly serves the important function of assuring ourselves and others that it is normal, and temporary, and part of a full and authentic life. Only suppressed grief threatens one's mental health.

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How Grief Works

Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Bereavement, Change, Grief, Mourning, Dealing With Death, Loss, Love, Grieving, Death, Dealing With Grief, Emotional Wellness, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News
Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW

Living with loss has no closure on pain but, thankfully, it also has no closure on love. Transcending loss is the process of learning to live with love and loss side by side in a way that brings greater meaning and purpose into our lives.

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Grieving Before Graduating

Laura March | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Bereavement, Loss, College, Grief Support, Grief Tips, Grieving Process, Grief, Grief and Loss, Grieving, College News
Laura March

Grief is not an emotion I expected to experience in college. I struggled to discuss my feelings with classmates who had never considered their parents' mortality.

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What a Difference a Word Makes

Gina Goldman | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Suicide, Depression, Grieving, Impact News
Gina Goldman

Parents are suppose to love their children enough to die for them, not care too little about them to die on them. So how do you begin to rebuild your own life in the face of a parent taking theirs?

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Writing Down the Grief

Lori Ungemah | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Grief, Sherman Alexie, Grieving, Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Education News
Lori Ungemah

I always openly address grief, dying, and grieving in my classroom. Between the many deaths in literature and the persistent grief and melancholia in poetry, it's a subject that weaves itself easily into an English class.

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How a Grieving Mom Accidentally Rediscovered 'Fun'

Babble.com | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Coping With Grief, Parenting, Grieving, Katie Allison Granju, Motherhood, Losing a Child, Gardening, Mamapundit, Loss of Children, Babble, Parents News
Babble.com

There's a point to having fun, which is that it should be part of the human experience. A big part. I'd just completely lost touch with that.

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Photographer's Magical Tribute To Her Mother

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Fashion Photography, Video, Kirsty Mitchell, Kirsty Mitchell Photography, Alexander McQueen, Kirsty Mitchell Wonderland, Female Artists, Slideexpand, Kirsty Mitchell Photos, Dealing With Loss, Mothers, Grieving, Arts News

Kirsty Mitchell is a former fashion designer who worked under both Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan as a student. However, she found her ultimat...

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Grieving for Who I Was Before Cancer

Meredith Israel Thomas | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Cancer, Coping With Cancer, Grieving, Women News
Meredith Israel Thomas

I always thought you could only grieve after you lost someone who died or a friendship that ended, but I have recently learned that I am grieving for who I was before cancer.

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Being the Mother of a Child Who Died -- On Mother's Day

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Coping With the Loss of a Child, Loss of a Child, Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2012, Motherhood, Losing a Child, Father's Day, Mother's Day Grief, Grieving, Parents News
Claire McCarthy, M.D.

I am the mother of a child who died. And that makes Mother's Day very hard. Other days of the year you can pretend that you are an ordinary person and that life is normal. But not on Mother's Day.

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Redefining the 5 Stages of Grief

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Acceptance, Denial, Five Stages of Grief, Depression, Anger, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Grieving Process, Grief, Death & Dying, Dealing With Grief, Dealing With Death, Bargaining, Death, Grieving, Grief Stages, Stages of Grief, Healthy Living News
Claire Bidwell Smith

Only you know what path you need to take toward healing, and whether you accomplish this using every one of the five stages, shunning books about grief or never missing a session of your bereavement group, the key will consistently be to listen to yourself.

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Hopsice: Grief, Depression and the DSM -- Take Two

Jeanne Dennis | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Major Depression, Hospice, Depression, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Hospice Care, Dsm, Grieving, American Psychiatric Association, Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Jeanne Dennis

It is important that we continue to see -- and treat -- bereavement as a universal experience that is an integral part of life.

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Isolated on an Island, Dealing With Grief

Lea Lane | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Bay of Fundy, Relationships, Mindful Living, Grief, My Story, Death and Dying, Canada, Travel, Unplug and Recharge, Healing, New Brunswick, Grand Manan Island, Grieving, Emotional Wellness, Gps-Soul, Solitude, Healthy Living News
Lea Lane

Alone on the cliffs of Grand Manan Island overlooking the misty Bay of Fundy, I didn't feel any lonelier than I did anywhere else. I felt peaceful. I missed my husband, but now I felt his presence more clearly in my memories.

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A Loss Of Family And A Change Of Faith

KidSpirit | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Judaism, Catholicism, Changing Faith, Soul, Loss, Faith, Belief, Agnosticism, Family, Death, Grieving, Catholic Church, Death & Dying, Religion News
KidSpirit

In the year since my grandfather's death, my views on faith and religion have changed a lot. After much inward debate I have decided to give up Judaism and become agnostic.

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Solace Through Exposure

The Technician | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Drugs, Drug Abuse, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Grieving, Death, Loss and Grief, College News
The Technician

The nightmarish reality of Charlie's childhood memories were not uncovered until his days at Fellowship Hall, where, during a word association exercise, Charlie's instant response to the word "chocolate" was "knife," which uprooted the repressed experience.

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Death Is Not The End

Anne Peterson | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dying, Spirit, Grief, Death & Dying, Emotional Wellness, Moving On, Mourning, Healthy Living Spirit, Spirituality, Grieving, Death, Home News
Anne Peterson

More than just the celestial signs we seek solace in, death offers a profound internal experience. While I have physically lost of my father, I am emotionally closer to him.

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Abner Ganet's Final Gift of Love

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Elie Wiesel, Passover, Abner Ganet, Love, Aging Parents, Abner Ganet Chicago, Grief, Grieving, Losing a Parent, Chicago News
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

Even as a full-fledged adult, the loss of one parent, let alone both, is a profound wound.

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Oh, What a Difference She Made

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Greiving, Death, Death and Grief, Grief, Meaningful Life, Death and Dying, Death & Dying, Living a Meaningful Life, Grieving, Memories, Healthy Living News
Lisa Earle McLeod

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.

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The Final Frontier: A Small, Wooden Commentary on Love and Death

Logan Lynn | Posted 04.06.2012

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Logan Lynn

I encourage you to pull your people close and tell them how much they mean to you before the day is through. Love is what matters.

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A Night Indisputably Different From All Other Nights

Drew Litowitz | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Passover Stories, Celebration, Tribute, Remembrance, Observing Passover, Grief, Death and Dying, Mindfulness, Seder, Loss, Personal Stories, Family, Passover, Grieving, Healthy Living News
Drew Litowitz

With Passover, and the one-year anniversary of my mother's death, approaching fast, I find myself in a particularly strange situation, wondering if I have a choice in how to move forward.

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Jumping the Fence

Kathleen Fordyce Rohan | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Outliving Your Spouse, 29th Birthday, Brain Cancer, Single Motherhood, Death of a Spouse, Cancer, Loss, Testicular Cancer, Birthday, Losing a Spouse, Grieving, Women News
Kathleen Fordyce Rohan

Did I do everything I could to help him? Why do I get to live, blessed so far to be disease free? Why am I the lucky one who gets to enjoy the feel of our son's little arms around my neck?

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Grieving Those Who Are Still Alive

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 04.04.2012

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Dr. Cara Barker

If you cannot depend upon those you love most deeply "being there" in your greatest time of need, on what may you rely?

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'Desperate Housewives': MJ Tries To Process Mike's Death

Posted 05.25.2012

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As Marc Cherry steers his "Desperate Housewives" (9 p.m. ET on ABC) closer to its series finale, fans are starting to notice a trend. Every week seems...

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A Turning Point for DSM 5: Will the APA Trustees Finally Step Up to the Plate?

Allen Frances | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Bereavement, Depression, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Grieving, Dsm 5 Grief Depression, DSM 5 Grief, DSM 5 Bereavement, Dsm 5 Depression, Dsm 5 Depression Grief, Science News
Allen Frances

Psychiatry is an essential and wonderful profession that deserves much better leadership than it has so far received throughout the DSM 5 fiasco. It has come down to a now-or-never moment for the leaders of APA to finally come to plate and curb obvious DSM 5 excess.

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Growing Through Loss: A Grief Well Met

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Bereavement, Living Loss, Moving Through Loss, Grief and Grace, Grief, Grieving Process, Dealing With Grief, Death & Dying, Bereavement Process, Dealing With Loss, Grieving, Grief and Loss, Healthy Living News
Dr. Cara Barker

Sometimes loss is literal: the death of someone you love. Sometimes the grief involves what I have come to call a "living loss."

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The Final Gift

Kyle Shamberg | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Saying Goodbye, Pets, Pet Owners, Pet Ownership, Pet Deaths, Death and Dying, Pet, Dog, Love, Grieving, Sleep, Green News
Kyle Shamberg

Well, let me tell you, if you've never owned a pet before you'd be surprised. Disgusting becomes endearing. Sloppy face baths become "kisses." And the annoyances... ok, they're still annoying. But there's one thing you always get: completely unconditional love.

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