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Americans have a grief problem we still call a mental health problem

Peter Preble

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OPINION — Americans have become much better at talking about mental health. We have learned words such as trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury.

That vocabulary matters.

It has helped people name experiences that previous generations were often expected simply to endure. There may still be something missing from the way we talk about human suffering: grief.

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