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May is #MentalHealrhAwarenessMonth and one of the MH issues we never discuss in the US is #grief. It sent me to the hospital two weeks ago. I wrote about that and more here, and got some experts to explain the impact.
Grief: A Mental Health Crisis epgn.com/2023/05/25/gri…
Grief: A Mental Health Crisis epgn.com/2023/05/25/gri…
A trauma explained how #grief is impacted by social norms: men are expected to hide/control their feelings. This makes #grief even more dangerous. Men who lose a spouse are more likely to choose suicide. #Grief also leads men to substance abuse.
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Women are more likely to experience heart-related problems like I did: #grief has physical ramifications, as one expert said. The pandemic made many of us party to collective grief: as a society we suddenly lost over 1M people we never even mourned.
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