What is grief? According to medicinenet.com grief is a normal internal feeling one experiences in reaction to a loss. Grief is common. As an example for this 3 out of four women outlive their husband and every year in the United States, 4% of children under the age of 15 experience the death of a parent.

Complicated grief is a type of grief that refers to a reaction to loss that lasts more than one year. It is characterized by the grief reaction intensifying to affect all of the sufferer’s close relationships, disrupting his or her beliefs, About 15% of bereaved individuals will suffer from complicated grief, and one-third of people already getting mental-health services have been found to suffer from this extended grief reaction.

Although grieving is a common part of of the process of losing someone close to you, the effects can play a potentially negative role on a person. For example, 40% of bereaved people will suffer some form of anxiety disorder in the first year after losing a loved one. The risk factors for experiencing more serious symptoms of grief for a longer period of time can be related to the survivor’s own physical and emotional health before the loss, the relationship between the bereaved and their family member or other loved one, as well as related to the nature of the death. This is most common in women who have lost a child.

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