I’ve written often on my decade-long struggle with grief after losing my father in my 20s. In some ways, that journey isn’t yet over.
I still avoid all discussion of death, cancer, or thinking even of the good memories. It’s become a key feature of my depression, but at what point does grief become prolonged grief disorder?
The newest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5-TR, seeks to answer that. That’s why I’m here — to give you everything you need to know on a new and somewhat contentious disorder which I may or may not have been diagnosed with had it come earlier.
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