Most people understand that grief is hard. What they don't expect is the way grief can become something more than sadness — something that takes up residence in the body, floods the mind with images you didn't choose and can't turn off, and makes it impossible to think about the person you lost without being pulled back into the worst moment of losing them.

If that sounds familiar, you're not grieving wrong. You may be experiencing traumatic grief — and there is help specifically designed for it. Explore what treatment looks like in this post written by a grief and trauma therapist in San Diego.