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Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe

c. 2013 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

(RNS) Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent.

Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to psychiatrists, who offer therapy or prescribe antidepressants to help ease their patients’ pain.