There is a kind of grief that does not get a card. No one brings you food. No one asks how you are doing three months later. You do not get time off work, or flowers, or a socially sanctioned reason to cry. And yet something real has gone. Something that mattered, deeply, to you. This is invisible loss. And…
Grief is a natural response to loss, but when it feels unending, overwhelming, or tangled with emotions that don’t seem to belong to ordinary mourning, it may be what’s known as complicated grief. This form of bereavement can feel isolating, particularly when the people around you expect you to have moved on. If you’re carrying a loss that doesn’t seem…