Question

Alex has been unable to accept his father's death. He thinks about his father every day, to the extent that he is unable to concentrate on his work or home life. Which term describes the type of grief Alex is experiencing?

Answer 1

Answer:

Complicated grief.

Explanation:

There are a few kinds of grieving: yearning-searching, hormonal grief, shock-numbness, complicated grief and disorganization-despair. Alex is going through complicated grieving and I'm going to focus on that. Almost every person loses a loved one and it's the darkest time of one's life. As the time passes by, a person feels better and relieved. Some people don't feel better and the feeling of loss does not improve over time. In this condition, pain, emotions and grief last longer and are very severe, so it blocks a person from moving on with their own life. Some of the symptoms: sorrow and pain over loss of our loved one, not being able to focus on anything but their death, problems with dealing with the fact that they're gone, numbness, bitterness, wishing we were dead too, etc. This condition usually occurs in people who lost a loved one under very complex and heavy circumstances, like: suici*e, ra*e, car-crash, murd*r, etc.