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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychologists say the reason watching your parents age feels so disorienting isn't just grief - it's something called ambiguous loss and most people experience it without ever having a name for it - Silicon Canals

Ambiguous loss is grief arising when a loved one is physically present but psychologically changed, producing ongoing, unresolvable mourning as roles and identities shift.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Experts say the frustration you feel watching a parent struggle with technology isn't really impatience - it's grief disguised as irritation, and most people never recognize the difference - Silicon Canals

Adult children often experience grief, not simple impatience, when observing a parent's loss of skills and the ambiguous loss of who they once were.
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fromPsychology Today
4 months ago
Mental health

Grief and Ambiguous Loss During Estrangement

Ambiguous loss often goes unrecognized, causing profound isolation and grief that can be eased by naming the loss to validate feelings and support healing.
fromPsychology Today
9 months ago
Relationships

What It Means to Grieve Someone Still Living

Ambiguous loss is a valid and complex grief that often lacks closure, leaving individuals feeling unsupported and emotionally stuck.
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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

An "Awkward Grief" for Her Half-Brother-in Life and in Death

Disenfranchised grief arises when family estrangement and unresolved relationships cause mourning for an absent or imagined relationship rather than shared memories.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

When the Holidays Meet Complex Sorrow Parenting

My son was not outside. He lay in bed, in a darkened room, unable to tolerate the noise, the light, the movement of his own body. The celebration happening just beyond our walls might as well have been on another planet. So often, over the years since my children developed neuroimmune conditions, I felt hollow. There was a hole inside me that nothing could fill.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The families of Syria's disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it | Wafa Mustafa

For more than 11 years, I told myself it was too early to grieve. My father, Ali Mustafa, was arrested by Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria on 2 July 2013 and disappeared. Since that day, we have had no word, no trace, nothing. Every morning since he was taken I made my first thought after waking up: He is alive. Every night I went to sleep repeating it.
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