What Is Anticipatory Grief? Signs and How to Cope

Person receiving emotional support from a therapist while coping with anticipatory grief.

If you’re caring for someone with a terminal diagnosis or watching dementia slowly take someone away, you may already feel grief, even though they’re still here. That feeling has a name. It’s called anticipatory grief, and it’s far more common than most people realize. You’re allowed to feel this. Nothing about it means you’ve given […]