When a clinician is faced with a person who is suffering during bereavement, they need to ask if it is a long-standing problem. We must not assume that the death can be pinpointed as the cause of the suffering, even though they are suffering after the loss. You may notice that by four years, or forty-eight months, the woman experiencing chronic grieving has the same level of depressive symptoms as those who followed a resilient trajectory. We know that there are people who experience chronic grieving for much longer, even a decade. So, even in the trajectory of chronic grieving, adaptation is
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