The story is a highly personal account of my struggle with complicated grief following the death of my mother. It also explores the grief process from a clinical standpoint, including interviews with mental-health professionals as well as research findings on complicated grief. Significantly, I discovered through the research process that the topic of complicated grief (also called prolonged grief) is controversial within the mental-health community. It had also been considered for addition as a new disorder in the 2013 edition of the DSM-5, but its inclusion was overruled.
