December 12th is always an emotional day for me. It's my late wife Barbara's birthday, and the #grief wells up and spills out.
Today was absolutely just such a day. And to top it off, my roommate went off on a rant about how my depth of feeling on that topic is wrong and unhealthy. Not her words. I cleaned it up.
I had a huge meltdown as a result. Now I'm exhausted, and in pain. I'm turning in for tonight. I hope.
Any ideas? I’m looking for articles, maybe even research, on the impact on grief when family members or friends die overseas & you can’t really help from Australia (or wherever you live). For instance, war zones, natural disasters, human-made disasters & the like. I can’t find anything. 🤞#grief#bereavement#mourning
@doctormfo@CindyWeinstein@appassionato@bookstodon Thank you! I’m a layman so I’ll need to familiarise myself with persistent complex bereavement disorder. I suppose that some of the people who mourn losses in other countries ARE refugees / immigrants, not something that I had thought about. 🙏🏻
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