Tuesday 4 June 2024

About bereavement and menal health - Mary Kenny

Mary Kenny in the Catholic Herald, 21.4.17

.........."I don't think that it is correct to associate the pain of bereavement with mental health issues.
This, I believe, is a diagnostic error that runs through our society and should be examined. Grief and sorrow are deeply distressing experiences, but they are not a form of mental illness. To feel grief and sorrow is a normal response to a very sad event. Indeed, not to feel grief and sorrow as a consequence of loss would be a greater indication of having something wrong with your emotional processes."

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