Even widely recognized forms of grief can become disenfranchised when well-meaning friends and family attempt to set a time limit on a bereaved person 's right to grieve . For example , the need to regulate mourning and restore a state of normal work activity severely impacted the grieving process of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing , according to American scholar Edward Linenthal . Grieving for lost children was redefined as post-traumatic stress disorder if parents were not " over it " within two weeks
Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing
Disenfranchised grief