Cumulative grief — multiple losses

When losses arrive in rapid succession, or when a lifetime of losses accumulates without adequate mourning of each one, the result is a particular kind of overwhelm — grief piled on grief, no space to complete one before the next arrives. This is common in health workers, people from marginalized communities, and those who have lived through displacement or war. This domain examines cumulative grief and what tends to help when the losses have outpaced the capacity to mourn them.