By Susan Bright — 2019
Female friendship is central to much recent fiction and film. What can it say about the role of relationships in identity?
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Why do female friendships tend to be more intense? And what happens when they end?
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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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