There is no vaccine for grief

Government spending on mental health services since the pandemic’s start has not directly included or addressed the unique and growing needs of grieving Canadians.

While grief is not a mental health condition, unsupported grief can turn into a mental health condition such as depression and suicidal thinking. And due to the circumstances of COVID-19, there is a far greater risk of grief being unsupported, write members of the Canadian Grief Alliance.Pexels photograph by Kat Jayne

Opinion

BY MAXXINE RATTNER, MARNEY THOMPSON, ANDREA WARNICK, SUSAN CADELL, KATHY KORTES-MILLER, CHRIS MACKINNON, AND SERENA LEWIS

December 29, 2020

The holiday season is often a difficult time for those grieving the death of someone they care about. That aching absence will be felt more deeply this year for more than two million bereaved Canadians grieving deaths from all causes, both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19. In a pandemic, bereaved Cana...

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