Inside the Grieving Brain & Complicated Grief

Good Mourning Broken Hearters and Happy New Year! I'm just wanting to make sure that I get here/hear to Band practice on a regular basis. While looking for a lapidary catalog I found this Newsweek article I had been saving and meaning to post and share with folks.
It's a short and fascinating article about what researchers are finding from doing brain scans of bereaved people while they look at images of their lost loved ones. It's from the section "HEALTH MATTERS" by Jerry Adler...

Inside the Grieving Brain

Memories of the person they missed prolonged their grief, giving them pleasure as well as pain.

Mourning the death of a loved one is about as universal a human emotion as exists, and it's not even confined to humans; there's evidence of it in other primates and even elephants. From its beginnings, psychotherapy has recognized the special challenge of grief and its relationship to depression (or, as Freud put it in the title of one of his best-known essays, "Mourning and Melancholia").....