It is often said that grief is not the same as depression. Give a grieving person a depression test, and there may be no depression to be found. I myself lost my wife at a relatively young age (I was fifty). My doctor, therefore, repeatedly tested me for depression. There was none. And yet, in my own words, I was "knocked for a six" (a cricketing expression). I was deeply shocked, and the shock did not go away. OBSERVATION: A grieving person may not be depressed. From experience, I would put it like this: in grief,
there is still life in one's spirit, while this is typically not the case with
depression. The publication World of Psychology once wrote, "Grief and depression occupy two quite different psychological territories."
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