The Impact of Pandemic Losses on Grief

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This chapter explores the distressing losses caused by the pandemic and how they affect the grieving process. It discusses the challenges of separation from loved ones, the debate around grief as a disorder, and the potential long-lasting effects of grief even after the pandemic subsides.

Grief is deeply painful but it's something the majority of us …eventually … find ways to live with.

But research is starting to emerge on how the pandemic may have changed the way we grieve - making the experience more intense, more debilitating.

As places like Australia and the US move on from the harshest restrictions of the last two years… is how we grieve returning to baseline? Or is it still too early to know? On All in the Mind this week, how the COVID pandemic has changed the nature of grief.