Grief at lost of loved one occasionally merits treatment, editorial says. Feb. 16, 2012— -- Grief following the death of a loved one isn't a mental illness that requires psychiatrists and ...

My wife of 45 years died six months ago this week. I have been processing her loss ever since. But the American Psychiatric Association now says that I have only six more months to heal myself, and ...

When you lose someone or something dear to you, it's natural to feel pain and grief. The grief process is normal, and most people go through it. But when grief takes over your life and you begin to ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Grief, defined by Merriam Webster as the “deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement,” is something no two people experience in the same way but everyone ...

The editors of the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — psychiatry’s diagnostic handbook — are having a hard time. They’ve been attacked by autism advocacy groups for ...

LOT WILL OPEN AT TWO TOMORROW. THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE A DIFFICULT TIME FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST SOMEONE RECENTLY. ABOUT 10 TO 20% OF PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED A LOSS EXPERIENCED PROLONGED OR COMPLICATED GRIEF.

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Identify A Problem Then Solve It—Right? • If we identified the cause of a doubling of heart attack rates for males and trebling for females, as a society, we'd mobilize all our resources to deal with ...

I was recently rereading some of what Irwin Sandler and his colleagues at the Prevention Research Center at Arizona State University have written about helping grieving children. They suggested that ...

None of us were prepared for the loss of life as we knew it — practically overnight — back in March. But some of us who'd experienced it before knew what to call the impenetrable fog of surreality ...