Kübler-Ross, a psychiatrist, describes denial, the first stage of grief, as a defense mechanism where our minds numb us to the immediacy of the loss. This historical development is presented as a long-term process culminating in the inclusion of valid, clinically relevant prolonged grief disorder criteria in diagnostic handbooks. Grief and depression may certainly coincide, but they also may be mutually exclusive, and we as clinicians need to be sensitive to this. Grief may also tell us we lost something important that may not be a person, but something else. Grief is a multidimensional experience that all of us will experience or have experienced in our lives.