I like the term complicated grief, because it reminds me of complications that can happen in any normal healing process. If you break a bone, the body creates new cells that remodel the bone and return it to its original strength. Although doctors might support this process by stabilizing the bone with a cast, knitting bone back together is a natural healing process. Even years later, if you have broken a bone, from an X-ray a doctor can still tell it was broken. Grief is similar, in that anyone’s life is forever changed because of loss, even when they have adjusted well.
