Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angry marriage I lived through prior to their breakup. From a very early age I often felt powerless and sad, even though outwardly I appeared cheerful so as not to cause further upset. For me, the divorce was one part relief--that the fighting was over--and two parts grief, as it confirmed for me that ultimately I was powerless in the matter. Staying together ``for the sake of the children'' is beside the point and probably ends up damaging them instead...
Chekhov once gave an aspiring novelist some telling advice: "When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief." In its cool observational dispassion and fineness of construction, Uncle Vanya has all the grace of a gentle snowfall...
...colleagues' reaction was disdain; yet over the next 24 years her dispatches from the biggest and longest-running study of divorced children only got bleaker. Wallerstein took an ever growing readership through a dispiriting landscape of anger and grief, of children unable to fit in with peers, and young adults crippled in their own attempts at love. "We realized that the whole trajectory of the child's life changes," she says. "Over half of the [now grown] children I have been studying have psychological problems they attribute to the divorce." In 1995, at her study's doleful quarter-century mark...
...While depression is indeed brought about, as Dr. Randolph Caitlin says, by a current loss (of love, relationship, a crucial ideal, a cherished self-image), the converse is not true: Loss does not usually cause clinical depression, but ordinary adaptive grief and sadness. The most comprehensive epidemiological study of depression (G. Brown and T. Harris, Social Origins of Depression, 1978) shows that 90 percent of depressions in women were caused by loss, but only 20 percent of women who experienced loss developed depression. Why? Past experience makes some people vulnerable to depression as a result of loss, while most people...
...safe-deposit box, in which O.J. expressed ``how wrong I was for hurting you.'' The remorse seemed genuine--if integral to O.J.'s obsession with control--and so did the love. Both sentiments might have softened the mood if matters had ended there. Instead, it was the inconsolable grief of Denise Brown that the jury took into recess--and was to face again on Monday morning...