Medically reviewed by Daniel B. Block, MD Key Takeaways Complicated grief, or prolonged grief disorder, is intense grief that ...

Last week, after a seminar I presented on healing from depression, a young woman asked if she could talk with me. “My dad died in a car accident three years ago—a devastating tragedy for my mom and me ...

While there has been over a century-old history of attempting to delineate and classify complicated forms of grief within thanatology (the scientific study of death) little of this was reflected in ...

(Updated Sept. 26, 2014) An intervention specifically targeting symptoms of complicated grief, a debilitating state of prolonged, acute grief, is superior to a treatment used for depression, a new ...

Annie Sklaver Orenstein was 25 when her brother Ben was killed while serving in Afghanistan. She found solace in writing about him and others who have lost siblings. Earlier this year, she published ...

Dr Pies: I'm delighted to have my colleagues, Dr Sid Zisook and Dr Kathy Shear, join me in a discussion of grief, depression, and some of the controversies surrounding these topics. Sid and Kathy, as ...

"We have found that women who experience reproductive loss often have complex grief or grief that lasts for a long time, and there's no real way to screen for that," Bute said. "Things like postpartum ...

Grief is a response to loss. A person may feel intense and overwhelming sadness when someone close to them dies. Sometimes, this sadness may worsen into complicated grief or become depression. A ...

The holiday season is meant to be filled with joy, connection and celebration of rituals. Many people, however, are starkly reminded of their grief this time of year and of whom – or what – they have ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Grief and mourning are similar, but grief is an internal experience, while mourning includes outward actions such as memorials, rituals, or cultural practices. While grief is involuntary, mourning ...