If you have never experienced a major loss in your life, you are one of the lucky ones. If you have experienced a major loss — a spouse, a child, or a close friend — you already know what it's like to feel like you're going crazy. In some ways, that's what you are.
In her extensive study of grief, Mary Frances O'Connor She explains that when we experience a deep loss, our brains must begin a long process of rewiring all the pathways and predictions we formed based on the presence of a loved one, gradually adapting to make sense of that person's absence. This can take time…
Source: www.newscientist.com
