Physician and author Elisa Medhus, M.D., recounts her grief after the loss of her son Erik, 20, after he took his own life in 2009 on her personal blog, Channeling Erik. She wrote an article for the Huffington Post stating her life split into two distinct sections after tragic event: “The Before and The After, The Bliss and The Dark Despair.”
If you felt sad following the death of a loved one for a few weeks, would you say you had a psychiatric problem? “The New York Times” reports the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M. 5) may label the emotion of grief after the loss of a loved one as the psychiatric disorder called major depressive disorder.
At the age of ten Jerome Biroo lost his mother to cancer. Six years later, the teen has let his guard down as he recounts his experiences about dealing with death at a young age as he offers young people advice about this process in a book titled Chances: A Teen Reshapes His Life After the Death of a Parent.
About a week ago, the evening for a group of young adults from Arizona ended tragically after a fatal car accident. Abby Guerra, age 19, and four of her friends were returning from Disneyland when their car crashed on the way home. Officials reported that Guerra and her friend, Tyler Parker, died as a result.
