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(35,123 posts)
Sun May 18, 2014, 02:20 PM May 2014

types of grief

apparently there are many types of grief we can experience and i found a list of them on a blog written by two mental health professionals:
http://whatsyourgrief.com/about-whats-your-grief/


normal grief

anticipatory grief

complicated grief
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691160/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complicated_grief_disorder
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/complicated-grief/basics/symptoms/con-20032765

chronic grief

delayed grief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_grief

distorted grief

prolonged grief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolonged_grief_disorder

exaggerated grief

masked grief

disenfranchised grief

traumatic grief

collective grief

ambiguous grief

inhibited grief

abbreviated grief

absent grief

and

cumulative grief
http://whatsyourgrief.com/cumulative-grief-aka-grief-overload/

http://whatsyourgrief.com/types-of-grief/



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