Happy birthday to the memory of my beloved, beautiful, and very difficult mother whom I mourn and will mourn for the rest of my life. My world fell apart when I lost my husband and my mother. Psychiatric issue? Maybe it is. I'm barely functioning. I haven't since their loss. ⚰️✨

There's been discussion of intense grief vs. depression in therapeutic circles because of how differently people react to it. They're doing research that should inform both the classification and treatment of it in the near future. In the near term, know you're not alone.

It is. We laugh in my house because the stereotypical Irish conversation begins "do you know who died", and most of my conversations start that way.