In our society, many people struggle to determine if their grief after a loss is normal. After all, we don’t get to see other people grieve. Most people don’t grieve publicly and often feel they have ...

Mental Health America, a national nonprofit organization that has a goal of promoting mental health as a critical part of overall wellness, says coping with death, whether it's the death of a relative ...

National Grief Awareness Day is Saturday Aug. 30. It’s a day dedicated to open communication on loss and bereavement to raise awareness about the experience of grief and the grieving process, to ...

In March 2022, a new diagnosis was added to the DSM-V, which is the handbook used by mental health providers and researchers to describe and classify groups of symptoms. Technically, this categorizes ...

Grief isn't just an emotional experience—there are also a number of serious physical symptoms that can sometimes show up in ways that might catch you off guard. Many people mistakenly believe that ...

DEAR ABBY: I had my four children by the time I was 24. My oldest is a senior, while my others are a sophomore, eighth grader and a seventh grader. I feel, at times, that I go through a grieving ...

This post is in response to DSM 5 to the Barricades on Grief By Allen J Frances M.D. There is a rising hysteria regarding the forthcoming DSM-5, the diagnostic manual of mental disorders due to be ...

Kelly Cervantes didn't necessarily set out to write a workbook on grief. The writer and advocate, who lost her daughter Adelaide to a rare form of epilepsy days before her 4th birthday in 2019, found ...