Monday Mourning: The Unspoken Grief of a Special Needs Diagnosis
October 12, 2020: The Unspoken Grief of a Special Needs Diagnosis. There’s a type of grief that comes along with a life-altering event unrelated to death. Pauline Boss is known for naming it “ambiguous loss” and it’s associated with either a physical absence with psychological presence (divorce, missing persons, miscarriage) or a physical presence with psychological absence (dementia, addiction, chronic illness). It’s the kind of grief that someone experiences when there is a