Understanding and Managing Grief, December 25 - December 31, 2016

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Buh Bye, 2016, http://bit.ly/2isEzZB « Modern Loss

Grief Diaries: Through The Eyes of Men, http://amzn.to/2iNS46X

Using Children's Books to Help with Grief, http://bit.ly/w4PFMh « Grief Healing

Understanding and Managing Grief, March 8 - March 14, 2015

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Helping a Grandparent Who Is Grieving, http://j.mp/1b9P7p6 « Alan D. Wolfelt

Easier than what?: A mother looks at life without, http://j.mp/1AnF99m « Writing the Heartache Blog

Taking Death to Parties - Why Mentioning a Loved One Who Has Recently Passed Away Matters, http://j.mp/1CcPICz « Ezine Articles

Loss of a Dream: When A Baby Isn't Perfect

[Reviewed and updated September 14, 2026]

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality. ~ James Womack

A reader writes: Apparently there is a syndrome in which a year or two after a parent learns that their baby/child has a severe disability, that parent, often the mother, has a sort of crisis and behaves out of character. This has recently happened to my wife. Over a year ago, our daughter (then 8 months) was diagnosed as being 98% deaf. Can you help identify the syndrome's name, if indeed it has one?