Prolonged grief is a condition that occurs, according to the medical industry, grief that lasts over a year. Prolonged grief is a disorder that was just added to the DSM five, the diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders. The DSM five is, whatever disease you can come up with and until recently, grief was never in it because grief is not a mental disorder.
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