Recently, after conversing over a bowl of noodles with my son about a very ill relative, I noticed adverts for urns popping up on my phone. A coincidence perhaps: but what was conspicuous about these urns promoting themselves was how rarely ads target us for death-related inventory. Seldom am I reminded I will die, and urns are waiting to welcome me.
The addition of this new disorder is intended to help clinicians and patients recognize what “normal grief” looks like versus “a long-term problem,” but, practically speaking, the addition means that insurance companies can be billed for services related to the diagnosis. All this addition to the DSM 5 provides is billing procedures. Help is available, reads the press release. This help continues to remainder people alone and lock grief away as the solvable jurisdiction of a billable professional. Yet the bereaved person must still exit after an hour to live in a world that reflects that it’s inconvenient and inefficient if they mourn too long.
We recognize that we are all made up of those we have lost and everything they taught us or the ways in which they ruined us. The way we were loved or equally not loved. Just as people announce their birthdays, wedding, sobriety, illness survival anniversaries, we invite people to share their loved ones verbally with us on the anniversaries of their deaths. The comfort of talk and remembrance need not only be reserved for the church pew and the psychiatrist’s office.
My neighbour's wife died in a workplace accident. He built a shrine to her in the house, massive pictures, funeral cards by the front door. He then proceeded to drink himself to death and joined her a few years later. Sometimes being too happy together is not a good thing.
Doctors call everything a 'disorder' makes money okboomer? *and it's pathetic
Get vaccinated! Put any never before used experiment liquide in your body and you’re grief will stop. The liquid might cause cancer in the long run though, but it’s worth taking a chance in stopping the grief.
Grief is very personal. It’s no one’s place to judge someone who is grieving. Nor should it be labelled or medicated!