By Jennifer F. Kelly, Helen L. Coons — 2019
Chronic stress, which is constant and persists over an extended period of time, can be debilitating and overwhelming.
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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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Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.