EP. 56: YOUR BRAIN ON GRIEF: MARY-FRANCIS O’CONNOR ON LEARNING FROM LOSS
Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks
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Is There a Complimentary Effect of Bereavement?
I saw a chart on your webside that shows, i think it was showing morbidity or mortaly rates for those who fail to adapt t o loss. Can you address thator, correct me, and then tell us what his complicated grief is? There is something that we call the broken heart phenomenon, also called the widowhood effect. For say, for example, a man whose wife dies, he is at higher risk for his own mortality inthe next six months compared to a man who remains married. He's actually almost twice as likely to die as his married counterpart. It is the same for women, as well as slightly lower risk. But what this tells us is there'
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