No breakup conversation, no clear ending, no closure—just the quiet grief of a relationship that simply faded. Ambiguous loss is grief without a clear ending. It happens when a relationship fades, ...

The last time I saw my dad, we test-drove a Jet Ski. He'd just repaired it for a customer, and the lake that day was flawless. "Hold on tight," he said before we sped off. I was 20. I wrapped my arms ...

Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. In the first installment of this series, I discussed the small losses of everyday life and how important it is for parents to try to tolerate their children’s ...

Yìchén* started therapy because his best friend had been badly injured in a motorcycle accident. He told me, He survived, but he’ll never be the same. And I don’t know how to deal with it. I don’t ...

Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, and executive ...

There are many ways we lose the people we love. Not all of them come with closure. Many people come to therapy when they are nursing complex forms of grief that they may not know how to deal with.

Ambiguous loss describes the grief of watching a loved one with dementia change while still physically present, a form of caregiver distress.

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Rachel Ganz's husband might be alive. But he might not be. More than three months after he was last seen near the Eleven Point River in Missouri amid severe flooding and evacuation orders, Jon Ganz is ...