Psychiatrists to brand grief lasting longer than two weeks a mental illness

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54. Why have you put inverted commas around symptoms?

I'm sorry but I'm going to push you on this - do you regard the emotional consequences of death as pathological or not? I can't see a "segueing" into "pathology" ever really being a meaningful way of describing grief, if that's what you're suggesting.

In the absence of a diagnosed co-morbidity like actual major depressive disorder I don't see how you can arbitrarily draw a line between "pathological" and "non-pathological" emotions around a life altering event like death. I see that those considering ending their own lives rather than continuing with grief might need help, but I don't see that delegitimising the cause of those emotions by conflating them with mood disorders is actually helping. And I really can't see how you can divorce such emotions from their cause, which is the significance of the lost person to the grieving individual, without delegitimising them and thus causing more stress to the grieving individual...

(Anyway, I imagine if you're talking about people driven to suicidal ideas as a result of loss we're getting away from the subject of the OP, somewhat...)