Complicated Grief is described by the Mayo Clinic as a chronic, heightened state of mourning characterized by numbness, intense longing, irritability, purposelessness, depression, and a lack of trust in others. It’s being stuck in the quagmire of lingering regret, sorrow, and shame, with life as void of joy as it is of hope that things will ever get better. You will be vulnerable to experiencing Prolonged Grief to the extent that you have previous tendencies toward anxiety and depression, or your breakup shocked and took you by surprise. It can also hit you if the way things went down between
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