Complicated grief: Depression and PTSD
Complicated grief is more likely to occur if the death was sudden, violent or unexpected, but it can also occur in normal bereavement.

Eyes of the world on New Orleans
Driving around the most devastated areas of New Orleans, it's hard not to feel like a grief tourist, gawping at the physical evidence of an unimaginable trauma that still feels fresh, both in terms of the city's landscape and its psyche.After 12 months the Lower 9th ward, which was all but obliterated by Katrina and the flooding it unleashed, still resembles a war zone, despite the assurances of construction workers busy bulldozing debris who tell us that actually, it used to be much worse. Read more...

New Treatment Recommended For Acute Grief
It's natural to experience grief when a loved one dies. But for 10% to 20% of people the grief is not typical. It's intensely acute, long lasting, and actually incapacitating.

Campus hotline is InTouch with crisis
Loneliness, depression, anxiety, loss and grief, sexual orientation, trauma, suicide, an encumbrance of psychological disorders: these are the realities of life, realities that UIC volunteers at the InTouch Crisis Hotline support people through daily. According to InTouch's coordinator, "Our primary goal and mission is to provide ethical, empathic, sensitive, and competent services to those in the community.

Impact, Psychological Sequelae and Management of Trauma Affecting Children and Adolescents
Find out what recent studies show about the validity of diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, comorbidity with anxiety, depressive disorders, and childhood traumatic grief symptoms. Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Medical Edge: Injections possible aid for keloids
Dear Mayo Clinic: I have a severe keloid problem, and in areas of my body where there has been no trauma or cuts. The two keloids that cause me the most grief are located from ear to ear under my neck and on my chest. Both are large and painful