By Joseph Donahue — 2009
Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate
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There may be a reason so many people refer to losing a piece of themselves...
This is what it looks like when you grieve the death of an estranged parent. It’s this surreal thing, where everyone expects you to feel something—yet you don’t. For me, it didn’t feel like I lost a parent, or a loved one, or even a close friend. It felt like I’d lost what could have been.
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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When people are pushed into advocacy or social work as a result of a traumatic loss, part of the benefit for those affected is in keeping busy, but it’s also a way to memorialize their loved ones, explained Joanne Cacciatore, an associate research professor at Arizona State University who studies...
A new study explores the importance of care farming, using therapeutic spaces to treat individuals impacted by traumatic grief.
Joanne Cacciatore of Sedona started the nonprofit MISS Foundation in 1996 to provide counseling, advocacy, research and education services to families who have endured the death of a child.
Behind the statistics are mourners unable to find comfort by coming together.
There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.
Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.
Throughout his profound spiritual awakening, the great Tibetan yogi Shabkar experienced immense loss resulting in grief marked by raw pain, a sense of disorientation, sadness, and tears.