One of the most dominant questions of the last decade of my life has been whether there is any difference between the experience of grief and the experience of mental illness.
As far back as 1918 Sigmund Freud considered this correlation between “mourning and melancholia” and more recently, there has been a heated debate whether grief should exclude someone from a diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD).
I strongly feel my experiences of grief manifested and then exacerbated my mental illnesses. In my 30s, I lost nine precious people and one dear cat in 10.5 years.
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