Losing Someone to Mental Illness is a Confusing Kind of Grief

How grieving this loss helped me recover

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It started with little things—tiny obsessions. Mom couldn’t stop talking about whether she might have spilled a small droplet of the perfume at the counter when she smelled it. Did that mean she had stolen it? For days on end, those around her would endure endless nonsense contemplations of…