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.

I've wondered something very similar. I also wonder if it doesn't cross Generations. Sins of the parents and all that? Philosophically interesting but in my experience grief and loss profound has left me especially with time, it is less brutal or linear but feels Everlasting.

There has been some research that indicates trauma changes DNA, but I'm not sure they've looked at how it might then get passed to descendants. At the very least, we know all sorts of things get passed across living generations, whether that's parent or grandparent to child.

My own thoughts often wander into the correlation of Jewish tribes whose generational legacy avoiding becoming captives and slaves has kept us in flight/fight mode. Is there anything relational to the seeming commonality of Jewish neuroses, neuro divergence, OCD, hyperactivity?