"At that time Lucian and I were very close and my mother was completely grief-stricken over the loss of my father – I wanted the baby for her, to give her someone to go on living for.
We're completely grief-stricken, and our lives have just been put on pause," she said.
If this suggestion is adopted, many people who experience completely normal grief could be mislabeled as having a psychiatric problem.
On some subconscious level I must have been hoping that by replaying the episodes, I could replay the memories, too, and surrender completely to grief.
"I opened the box and was completely overwhelmed with grief," says Jason. "The thought of him being in the morgue, a small defenceless boy, alone, was unbearable.
I was completely overcome with grief.
I don't know if I can blame the terrible decisions I made on that mountain completely on my grief, but the fact is that I became reckless.
In Apollonius of Rhodes' account of the Argonautica, Hercules becomes completely immobilized by grief when Hylas, his male love interest, is kidnapped by water nymphs.
It was a form of exhausted grief completely devoid of real-world connection: I was a tourist in the North and now returned to a home in a city where I could forget about it all.
The data presented on mourning behaviour among the Zulu [ 32, 48] showed that the expression of grief completely disappeared after the funeral and this raises doubts about the appropriateness of medicalised models of grief.
"Terrorism is completely different to other grief," Denoix de Saint Marc told me.
