February 3, 2015
Blurb
Among the many problems facing clinicians – besides the fact that there is no blood or urine test that quickly confirms a diagnosis – is the terminology. There is bereavement, grief, complicated grief, depression and major depression.
Bereavement is the situation of having experienced the death of a loved one – not the response to that loss, according to Dr. M. Katherine Shear, program director for Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. Grief is the response to loss.
Read more: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2015/01/how-do-doctors-distinguish-grief-from-depression/
Bereavement is the situation of having experienced the death of a loved one – not the response to that loss, according to Dr. M. Katherine Shear, program director for Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. Grief is the response to loss.
Read more: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/depression/2015/01/how-do-doctors-distinguish-grief-from-depression/