
Symptoms of complicated grief include:
- An extreme focus on the deceased and reminders of the deceased
- Intense longing for the deceased
- Problems accepting the death
- Emotional numbness (~6 months following the suicide)
- Preoccupation with one’s sorrow
- Bitterness about one’s loss
- Sadness
- Inability to move on with one’s life
- Difficulty maintaining usual daily activities
- Viewing life as meaningless
- Agitation, irritability
- Lack of trust in others
- Isolation, avoidance
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