Understanding and Managing Grief, February 12 - February 18, 2012

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Widow Chick: This Too Shall Pass, http://j.mp/zNJ5E9
  
  
• Al Frances, who developed DSM-IV, attacks the medicalisation of grief in DSM5 http://bit.ly/ArlBfw MT @Dr_Tad
  
  
• Culture, bereavement, and psychiatry, http://bit.ly/AyFO5o by @TheLancet via @_lizzy_
  
  
• Dogs and Loss: The Healing Power of Pets, j.mp/wU6FBy
  
  
• Psychiatry debates whether grief is really depression, http://goo.gl/QppTa from @guilfordpress via @latimes
• Beautiful! Grief: As Time Goes By, http://j.mp/yKQmq1
  
  
• Friend Grief When a Colleague Dies, http://j.mp/ygnPhw
  
  
• Yay! Cemetery is training a bereavement therapy dog, http://ow.ly/96lYW via @VillageMemorial
  
  
• The Devastating Reality of Sudden Death - Stunned By Grief, http://j.mp/w2H8nA
  
  
• Remembering Our Loved Ones on Valentines Day, http://bit.ly/Aq9slQ via @Selfhealingexpr
  
  
• Beautiful! "The Anticipatory Grief of Dementia," http://bit.ly/xNiIalMT@asnl2
  
  
• Grief in the Second Year: more difficult than the first, http://bit.ly/x1XP3K  by @GriefHealing via @emilybarryPR: "I can attest to this"
  
  
• Downside of getting older: “We’re at That Age” – Well, That Sucks, http://bit.ly/yOHh7q by @Victoria_Noe
  
  
• Remembering Our Loved Ones on Valentine's Day, http://j.mp/c1i8oF via @Selfhealingexpr
  
  
• Paper thin heart: the risk of loving again, http://j.mp/zWKeED