More than a million Americans are thought to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder at any given time. In recent decades the condition has risen to the fore as one of the most concerning and studied mental-health issues of our time. But what if PTSD was not considered a disorder or mental illness but rather a normal and necessary response to an abnormal event? What if PTSD was seen as a complicated grief response? And what if we helped traumatized grievers authentically and fully mourn instead of trying to treat away their symptoms with medical therapies?
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