Depression of Grief : Coping with Your Sadness and Knowing When to Get Help.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- A special note to friends and family members -- Part 1: The journey we call grief -- Grief versus mourning -- What is healing in grief? -- Death and other losses -- Grief is not a disease -- Symptoms of normal grief -- Shock, numbness, denial, and disbelief -- Intentionally numbing yourself to the pain -- Disorganization, confusion, searching, and yearning -- Anxiety, panic, and fear -- Explosive emotions -- Guilt and regret -- Survivor guilt -- Relief-guilt -- Joy-guilt -- Magical thinking and guilt -- Longstanding personality factors and guilt -- Sadness and depression -- Clean pain versus dirty pain -- Part 2: The sadness of grief -- The dark night of the soul -- The necessity of stillness -- Liminal space -- Sadness and empathy -- Your divine spark -- Honoring your pain -- Dosing your pain -- Making grief your friend -- Part 3: Grief depression or clinical depression? -- What is clinical depression? -- Grief or clinical depression? -- Grief and clinical depression at the same time? -- Grief and the DSM-5 -- Types of clinical depression -- Suicide and depression -- Warning signs of suicide -- Good grief or complicated grief? -- An unnatural or untimely death -- Your personality -- Your relationship with the person who died -- An inability to express your grief -- Use of drugs or alcohol -- Absent or delayed grief -- Distorted grief -- Converted grief -- Chronic grief -- How to know if you are clinically depressed or experiencing complicated grief -- What to do about depression -- Part 4: Mourning as "treatment" -- The six needs of mourning -- Mourning Need 1: Accept the reality of the death -- Mourning Need 2: Let yourself feel the pain of the loss -- Mourning Need 3: Remember the person who died -- Mourning Need 4: Develop a new self-identity.

Mourning Need 5: Search for meaning -- Mourning Need 6: Let others help you-now and always -- What happens when you don't mourn -- Symptoms of carried grief -- Difficulties with trust and intimacy -- Depression and negative outlook -- Anxiety and panic attacks -- Psychic numbing and disconnection -- Irritability and agitation -- Substance abuse, addictions, eating disorders -- Physical problems, real or imagined -- Carried grief self-inventory -- The power of telling your story -- Part 5: Medical therapies as treatment -- Types of biomedical treatment -- Antidepressants -- Psychotherapy/counseling -- Contents -- Research-supported psychotherapies -- Grief companioning-a form of client-centered talk therapy -- Combined treatment-antidepressants and talk therapy -- Finding a good counselor -- If your counselor recommends hospitalization -- Part 6: Believe in your capacity to heal -- Setting your intention to heal -- Reconciling your grief -- No reward for speed -- Caring for yourself as you heal -- The physical realm -- The cognitive realm -- The emotional realm -- The social realm -- The spiritual realm -- How reconciliation feels -- Closure: a misnomer -- The transformative nature of grief -- Hope for your healing -- Glossary of terms -- By the Same Author -- Back Cover.