Human emotions can be in understandable; the feelings could be overwhelming at times. Joys and sorrows are a part of life but sometimes it's hard getting over such conditions.
Death is inescapable; one has to go through the demise of loved ones at one point or another. No matter how hard it is to cope with such an event, it becomes undeniable to stay away from life. The grieving process is somewhat complicated, hard to explain. The Atlantic tells a story about a mother grieving the loss of her young son. The mother suffered deep pain, and the inability to talk to someone about it made it worse.
Psychiatrists on experiencing such painful emotions are questioned with a possibility: Is grief a disease? A sort of mental illness? Counseling and group services seem to be helpful for grieving people but still in many cases, people remained melancholic and occupied with the idea of the loss of their loved ones.
According to the Washington Post, the different school of thoughts has different verdicts, though many consider complicated grief as a mental disorder which needs to be treated, however, the editorial board of The Lancet is against such change, contenders, on the other hand, find it convincing for people to enter treatment.
Grief is of paramount significance; Freud believed that mental energy is limited and it requires effort, time and pain to move that energy to somewhere else which was attached to the person who died. But modern psychoanalysts have seen more difficult phases of grief and came to conclude that chronic pain exists and such people need treatment to separate their positive thoughts from the depression. Psychiatrist Dr. Shear has initiated a comprehensive and helpful therapy for prolonged grief, and it has been useful for many people in the recent years.
