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What the Death of a Parent Can Teach Us, If We’re Willing to Learn

By Alene Dawson — 2018

The death of a parent can send shock waves through your self-perception and reposition the mental space you occupy on the planet. The grief can be life changing.

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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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The MISS Foundation: A Lifeline to Grieving Families

Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.

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Mary Ann Bashaw
2016
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The Death of a Parent Affects Even Grown Children Psychologically and Physically

Losing a parent is among the most emotionally difficult and universal of human experiences. Most people will experience the loss of their mother or father in their lifetime.

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Joshua A. Krisch
2021
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The Five Stages of Grief

Throughout life, we experience many instances of grief. Grief can be caused by situations, relationships, or even substance abuse.

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Christina Gregory
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Whose Grief? Our Grief

For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.

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Saeed Jones
2020
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An Open Letter to Grievers

Grief, especially when traumatic, can shut us down and disconnect us or it can shatter our hearts into a million pieces of fierce compassion in the world. One way or another, we change.

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Joanne Cacciatore
2017
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MISS Foundation: Helping Families Deal with Tragic Losses

The MISS Foundation serves families who are dealing with one of life’s ultimate darkest hours: the death of a child.

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Katherine Sweet
2013
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When Grief Becomes a Disorder

What is complicated grief, and how does it differ from depression?

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Sanjay Gupta
2015
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Father’s Campaign: More Time Off for Grieving Parents

Following the death of his 18-year-old daughter, Barry Kluger is campaigning for federal law to allow more time off for grieving parents.

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Olivia Smith
2012
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A Force for Change: Coping With Grief Through Activism and Advocacy

When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies...

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Dakin Andone
2017
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