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The Grief Exception
One of the more controversial changes in DSM5, the removal of the grief exclusion is sometimes cited as evidence of the increasing ‘medicalization’ of normal human behavior. That’s a reasonable...
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Recognizing Unresolved Grief
What’s grief? An emotional process that can be expected to occur in the aftermath of a significant personal loss, such as a death in the family or the collapse of an important relationship. There’s no...
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The Grief Exception
One of the more controversial changes in DSM5, the removal of the grief exclusion is sometimes cited as evidence of the increasing ‘medicalization’ of normal human behavior. That’s a reasonable...
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Recognizing Unresolved Grief
What’s grief? An emotional process that can be expected to occur in the aftermath of a significant personal loss, such as a death in the family or the collapse of an important relationship. There’s no...
View ArticleThe Grief Exception
Psychiatrists were encouraged to hold off on a diagnosis of depressive disorder until several months after such a loss.
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Like so much else, the grieving process tends to get lost in the miasma of substance use and addiction.
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In general, the pathology of prolonged grief features intense feelings of longing for or preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased-- for example, on most days or even daily over a period of time. The...
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