#8: Prolonged Grief

On the pathologizing and stigmatizing of human experiences

One month after my mother died, I printed out the MapQuest directions to a therapist’s office that my father urged me to visit. The office was a home office about thirty minutes away in a neighboring town—an alcove attached to a three-story Tudor with landscaped flower beds and a cobblestone staircase. As I pulled up to the curb and parked my car, I saw…