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 Grimm  ENGL 1102  9 March 2017   Literature Review: When Does Grief Become Abnormal ?  Many people who have suffered the loss of someone close to them try to live a normal life while hiding the issues of their mental health. In certain cases, people continue to let the death of a loved one complicate their lives. The main problem is that sometimes people do not choose to live their lives this way. My research has been strongly centered around why grief sometimes becomes abnormal and what physicians, doctors, scientist, etc. are doing to solve the issue of complicated grief.  My first source was a scientific perspective on the issues of complicated grief. This article questioned if they should consider a more patient centered approach for their research. Their research involves using (DSM-5) to help diagnose patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). It is said that complicated grief (CG) can trigger certain mental disorders including MDD. With the help of (DSM-5) doctors can determine how severe a patients mental illness is by labeling the case "normal" or "abnormal". The main purpose of labeling the patients case is to further help the individual mental illness. This source provided my research with vital scientific evidence of ways scientist are attempting to solve complicated grief.  My second source provided me with a real life situation of how complicated grief can effect someone's everyday life. In this article Lynda Randall writes about a case where a 50 year old woman developed anorexia nervosa after the loss of her son in a car crash. Prior to the car crash the mother has suffered from the mental illness of depression. Her son also suffered from the mental disorder of bulimia nervosa and recovered at the age of 22. The article claimed that the onset of the son's mental disorder had been triggered by the mother's ongoing case of depression before his death. the mother overcame her disorder of anorexia nervosa with a 16 session treatment that was very successful. This article gave my research proof that grief can become abnormal due to previous history of the patient. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my third source, the author provides me with information on how grief becomes abnormal. M.Shear and Colleen Gribbin Bloom notes that complicated grief is a condition that occurs when a person fails to move on from the death of a lost loved one. The condition of complicated grief includes many symptoms that can confirm ones condition. If these symptoms go untreated it can cause many dangerous conditions including substantial distress and impairment. Complicated grief (CG) can be treated with 16 sessions of treatment just like in the case from my previous source provided. This article is important to my research because it provides me with solid evidence on when complicated grief occurs. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">My final source, is an article that suggest complicated grief can be related to bereavement psychopathology. In this article George A. Bonanno provides readers with results from different studies to make his argument solid. Two studies with different data collected were used to compare PTSD and depression with complicated grief. The results of the studies provided support that complicated grief can be a cause of bereavement psychopathology. This article is important to my research because it proves that complicated grief can eventually become abnormal. The author's main purpose of this article was to inform his audience that complicated grief can be determined as a mental disorder. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In conclusion, i was able to discover sources that related to my topic and also somehow can relate to each other. These sources provided me with a more in depth understanding of how grief can eventually become abnormal due to patients background history. These sources also provided me with information on how scientist are approaching this issue to solve this illness and how clinicians are treating patients. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="NormalTextRun SCX208917727" style="background-color: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">__Works Cited__ <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">MOAYEDODDIN, BABAK and JOHN C. 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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url= __http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rlh&AN=111972158&site=eds-live__ <span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Randall, Lynda. "Abnormal Grief and Eating Disorders within a Mother-Son Dyad." British Journal of Medical Psychology, vol. 66, no. 1, Mar. 1993, pp. 89-96. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1993.tb01730.x.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shear, M. and Colleen Gribbin Bloom. "Complicated Grief Treatment: An Evidence-Based Approach to Grief Therapy." Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, vol. 35, no. 1, Mar. 2017, p. 6. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url= __http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=121412460&site=eds-live__ <span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCX208917727" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bonanno, George A., et al. "Is There More to Complicated Grief Than Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? A Test of Incremental Validity." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 116, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 342-351. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1037/0021-843X.116.2.342.