The Trouble with Diagnosing Complicated Grief A mental disorder shares a fuzzy boundary with normative human difficulties. We recognize a mental disorder when a person hears voices that make them believe terrible things about themselves. We recognize a disorder when a person’s crippling anxiety prevents them from leaving their home. When a person cannot remember their loved one’s names, or when they suffer so much psychic pain they wish they were dead, we can identify these states as mental disorders. Psychologists and researchers are working hard to understand and explain the murky boundary
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