Re "10 Years and a Diagnosis Later, 9/11 Demons Haunt Thousands" (front page, Aug. 10), about post-traumatic stress disorder and the 2010 Zadroga Act providing funds to treat it: Your article does not mention complicated grief, a condition that affects about 7 percent of all bereaved people (according to a new study), with rates two to four times higher among 9/11 victims.
Maybe they are just dazed by grief, or conditioned to keep their emotions hidden.
But what I learned from my grandmother's journey through Alzheimer's was that my grief regarding her condition had largely to do with my failure to accept the change she was undergoing.
One of the foundation's major principles is that anger, if channeled correctly, is welcome, for it derives from the Norse word angr, which can mean sorrow or grief at the condition of the world.
However, others have defended the film, including the Guardian's Ben Walters, who suggested that The Imitation Game "makes his gayness unambiguously clear and shows how his adolescent desire for another boy is bound up in secrecy, repression, shame and grief – a tragic condition but one that also fuelled his intellectual focus and self-sufficiency with such tremendous results".
In these stories, grief is a chronic condition, not a hardship to overcome, but to be endured.
Grief is a frightening condition, and at its extreme is like the sun: impossible to look at directly.
Other studies indicate a significant overlap between symptoms of CG and PTSD [ 3]; [ 4], yet despite the unresolved issues on CG or PGD as a diagnostic entity, it has been noted, that complications during a time of grief is a debilitating condition in need of treatment [ 5].
Additional bail conditions include grief counselling, a psychiatric evaluation, and being confined to the home where the alleged offence took place.
Grief, like some other conditions of human stress to the max, requires professional intervention all the more when there is no context for family or friend supports.
