Complicated Grief

A complicated grief "has to persist for six months or more in a way that interferes with your daily functioning," says UCLA researcher Mary-Frances O'Connor.

I hope I can overcome much sooner from all the damage she's caused inside my brain, my heart. When I think of her, I feel loss and pain and sadness and anger, and then I find those memories of happy, wonderful days, floating into my mind.

In the brain there's a fine line between pleasure and pain - a superfast, synaptic freeway with neurons firing in a battle for happiness over insanity.