George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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It's okay.
You can take some time off.
And I think they were worried that I was, you know, inappropriately coming back to work when it's really all I wanted to do.
I wanted to, you know, and it makes sense because when people come back to work, come back to something that's rewarding to them, they're telling themselves and showing themselves they still have a role in life.
They still have an identity that's not lost.
Chronic grief is simply put the inability to get over the loss.
We measure it in very clear ways, having a lot of the kind of symptoms we associate with grieving, but struggling to function, struggling to think, to concentrate, to be close to other people.
And it just simply can't get past that.
So they're suffering and suffering for months and often years.
How many people experience this kind of chronic grief, George?
Best estimates, I would say, are at the most about 10% and usually less.
The recovery pattern is very interesting.
It's a pattern that begins with a lot of difficulty, struggle, difficulty, high levels of symptoms and distress.
And then gradually over the course of a year or two, the symptoms and the distress diminish and the person moves back toward their baseline, where they were before.
It takes time, but they're steadily getting better.
Well, delayed symptoms, first of all, we don't really see that with grief.
There is really no evidence for something called delayed grief.
We do see this when there's a trauma, a potentially traumatic event, but we don't see the classic idea of delayed PTSD.
Classically, it was a thought that people would be functioning just fine.
And maybe this would be connected to the idea that perhaps they're in denial.
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