Complicated grief — prolonged grief disorder

For some people, grief does not move — it remains at full intensity for a year or more, resistant to the natural processes of integration, organized around a persistent yearning for the deceased that does not soften. This experience, now recognized as prolonged grief disorder, is both real and treatable, and its recognition has been important for people who have carried it without understanding why their grief wasn't working. This domain examines complicated grief with clarity about what it is and what helps.