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We can certainly debate the legitimate boundaries of disease and "normality," as in the controversy over "normal grief" versus major depression after a recent bereavement.
What does it mean?" Some people pass through a normal grief process and heal quickly.
Psychiatrists today, following Lindemann's lead, distinguish between "normal" grief and "complicated" or "prolonged" grief.
And after he died, I got to have some profoundly normal grief.
If this suggestion is adopted, many people who experience completely normal grief could be mislabeled as having a psychiatric problem.
When I show this criterion to parents who have lost a child, they react with bitter amusement at the idea that normal grief is so quickly considered pathological.
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All the things that you've described are within the normal range of grief responses: tears, nightmares, anger".
The old D.S.M.-4, for instance, clearly distinguished normal and expected grief after loss from the more severe and persistent symptoms of clinical depression.
There is no set timeframe for passing through these stages, but they have become accepted as part of the normal pattern of grief.
"Are we over-medicalizing normal emotions like grief?
"Are we over-medicalising normal emotions like grief?
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