By Mayo Clinic Staff — 2018
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What is complicated grief, and how does it differ from depression?
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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Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.