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How to use the word bereavement in a Sentence?

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Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

Arthur Kleinman

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

It's really just a pathetic statement after someone has gone to therapy publicly for sex shaming, working through my own depression, bereavement, and vulnerabilities at that time, i don't even say the words she says.

Sophia Laurent Abraham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Some degree of guilt is so often present in normal bereavement -- we usually think of things that we might have done or said differently -- but it is likely to be exaggerated with Covid-19, our experience is going to be complicated by the fact that we may feel that our loved one has died isolated and unsupported by us.

Tom Dening

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In an ideal setting, psychological support, counseling and even practical things like bereavement counseling are super important but seen as a luxury right now.

Liana Roodt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Grief is a normal response to bereavement, and everyone has their own timetable and style of grieving. You will always miss the person who died and will always experience the pain of loss. However, that pain does not have to become suffering, pain accompanies grief, and if Though Gross contract against Though Gross pain, it becomes suffering. That's when grief is unhealthy, and that's when Though Gross can get caught in PGD, prolonged grief.

Though Gross

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The entire base joins me in sending our deepest sympathies to the Tobar family during this period of bereavement, the bonds that tie the Air Force family together are strong, both down-range and at home station.

Fighter Winger

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

With the Brown family, there will probably be a lot of very difficult issues after Bobbi Kristina has passed away, and the hospice bereavement team would be there to help. [They] can hopefully offer support whether it is something that is a spiritual problem or a family dynamic issue.

Jon Radulovic

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Public knowledge about spousal loss in old age has in general a negative connotation -- bereavement is usually seen as an individual issue, however bereaved individuals vary considerably in their reactions to loss, and little is known on how the historical context contributes to adaptation to spousal loss.

Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power.

Gerard Hargraves

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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