Title: Long Term Grief Can Lead to Memory Loss, Study Reports
Headings: Long Term Grief Can Lead to Memory Loss, Study Reports
Long Term Grief Can Lead to Memory Loss, Study Reports
Content: They also had difficulty creating future events without their loved ones, but did not have the same issues when they generated events with their loved ones. "Most striking to us was the ease with which individuals with complicated grief were able to imagine the future with the deceased relative to their difficulty imagining the future without the deceased," the researchers noted. " They frequently imagined landmark life events-such as the birth of their first child or a 50th wedding anniversary-that had long since become impossible. Yet, this impossible future was more readily imagined than one that could, at that point, realistically occur." These findings reveal that certain people might need an extra push during their coping periods. The researchers suggested that setting goals and accomplishing them could help people heal from the loss of a partner. There seems to be a larger underlying factor in why some people suffer from complicated grief. However, the researchers could not infer from their study as to what those factors were. The study was published in Clinical Psychological Science. Tags Memory Loss, grief, long term grief, psychological effects, Depression, recall, future, sadness
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