Dr Pies: I'm delighted to have my colleagues, Dr Sid Zisook and Dr Kathy Shear, join me in a discussion of grief, depression, and some of the controversies surrounding these topics. Sid and Kathy, as ...

While there has been over a century-old history of attempting to delineate and classify complicated forms of grief within thanatology (the scientific study of death) little of this was reflected in ...

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Complicated grief, also termed prolonged grief disorder, is a debilitating condition marked by intense yearning, pervasive preoccupation with the deceased and profound emotional distress that persists ...

Dear Doctors: My mother and stepfather were married for 42 years when he passed away suddenly. That was a year ago, and she’s still struggling. I talked to my doctor about it, and he said it sounds ...

Dear Eric: My cat died in 2013. Everyone said I treated him like a child. He got so sick, so suddenly, it freaked me out so badly. Then my dad died out of nowhere in 2018. I wanted to die to be with ...

Dear Eric: My cat died in 2013. Everyone said I treated him like a child. He got so sick, so suddenly, it freaked me out so badly. Ask Anna: He’s using AI to text me Asking Eric: Son and family living ...