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aeturnum 4 days ago

Sure - it's an expansive essay on the authors' experience around their grief. I never said that this was their thesis, but I do think the way they talk about medicalization is worth critiquing. They put their experience in tension with medicalization in a way that I don't quite see.

Edit: I specifically think it's wrong to say we medicalize grief because we fear it. We medicalize it because some people would like a medical intervention with their grief. It's great and right that the author does not want that - but also they shouldn't write in a way that suggest that medical interventions in grief are wrongheaded.

ericyd 4 days ago | parent [-]

Ok fair enough. I read her sentence as more of a figurative reflection on social attitudes towards grief, but if it's taken at face value then I see your point.