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失去很痛,怀念很伤:如何才能走出来
如何面对“失去”,是人生的一大主题。无论失去的是什么,我们都会经历悲伤、痛苦等情绪。不久前,
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国最权威的精神病学组织将长时期的哀伤情绪定义为“延长哀伤障碍”。对于这一病症的患者,该怎么办才能走出哀伤,回到正常的生活呢?
How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer.
By Ellen Barry
After more than a decade of argument, psychiatry's most powerful body in the United States added a new disorder this week to its diagnostic manual: prolonged grief.
The new diagnosis was designed to apply to a narrow slice of the population who are incapacitated, pining and ruminating a year after a loss, and unable to return to previous activities.
Dr. M. Katherine Shear, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University, said it was difficult to predict what treatments would emerge. She added, "I really am in favor of anything that helps people, honestly."
Amy Cuzzola-Kern, 54, said Dr. Shear's treatment helped her break out of a terrible loop.
Three years earlier, her brother had died suddenly in his sleep of a heart attack. Ms. Cuzzola-Kern found herself compulsively replaying the days and hours leading up to his death, wondering whether she should have noticed he was unwell or nudged him to go to the emergency room.
"I was in such a state of protest — this can't be, this is a dream," she said. "I felt like I was living in a suspended reality."
She entered Dr. Shear's 16-session program, called prolonged grief disorder therapy. In sessions with a therapist, she would narrate her recollection of the day that she learned her brother had died — a painful process, but one that gradually drained the horror out of the memory. By the end, she said, she had accepted the fact of his death.
The diagnosis, she said, mattered only because it was a gateway to the proper treatment. "Am I ashamed or embarrassed? Do I feel pathological? No," she said. "I needed
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