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Megan Devine

Apr 22, 2026

4:49
Mm-hmm.
4:49
That was less wordy than I expected it to be.
4:52
But it's that, that all-encompassing effect of losing something or someone, right? The how it destabilizes your gravitational force, right? To differing degrees, right? Like you can l-lose a job that you wanted, but it doesn't dissolve the world in a way that losing your best friend or losing a parent can dissolve the whole world.
5:17
So we're talking about a spectrum, but we're also talking about a set of biological, relational, cognitive [laughs] emotional responses to the disappearance of something-

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31:33
Mm-hmm.
31:33
[laughs] When, um, when prolonged grief disorder made it into the DSM psychology thing, um, and there was a big article, I can't remember which big paper it was in, but it was like, you know, "Psychologists know how long you should grieve.
31:48
Prolonged grief disorder," or, like, in the American version it's six months, but in the international version it's 12 months, or it's the reverse.
31:55
I can't remember.

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