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Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
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Some losses are so subtle they go unnoticed, some so overwhelming and cruel they seem unbearable. Coping with grief and experiencing loss overwhelms us in ways that seem both hopeless and endless.
Erica and Spencer Shemwell have formed a new modern big family with their 11 kids—but blending two families isn’t always easy!
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.