Compound grief is the accumulation of losses in a short period of time; when you do not have a chance to grieve one loss before another one shows up. It is a form of trauma that I think is not recognized enough. When events overwhelm our ability to cope, we can get stuck in flight, fight, freeze or fawn, hypervigilant or desensitized in ways we are not even aware of.

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