Meaning Anticipatory grief
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Anticipatory grief


The normal mourning that occurs when a patient or family is expecting a death. Anticipatory grief has many of the same symptoms as those experienced after a death has occurred. It includes all of the thinking, feeling, cultural, and social reactions to an expected death that are felt by the patient and family. Anticipatory grief includes depression [..]
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Anticipatory grief


sorrow and grief associated with the expectation that a valued person will die soon - similar to the grief encountered after death. This may be adaptive in cushioning the impact of grief or maladaptiv [..]
Source: psychologydictionary.org

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Anticipatory grief


grief we experience prior to a pet’s death as we anticipate our impending loss.
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