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=== Joe Biden's life greatly shaped by grief and his unresolved emotional wounds ===

=== Joe Biden's life greatly shaped by grief and his unresolved emotional wounds ===

 

The ''American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry'' in a journal article entitled ''Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons'' indicated that individuals with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) compared with a reference group "showed a decrease in global cognitive function".<ref>[https://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481(17)30559-6/pdf Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons]</ref> See: [[Prolonged grief disorder and cognitive decline]]

The ''American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry'' in a journal article entitled ''Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons'' indicated that individuals with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) compared with a reference group "showed a decrease in global cognitive function".<ref>[https://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481(17)30559-6/pdf Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons]</ref> See: [[Prolonged grief disorder and cognitive decline]]

Politico in an article entited ''How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’'' indicates:

Politico in an article entited ''How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’'' indicates:

{{Cquote|There is no person in American politics today whose life has been so shaped by loss and grief. The long arc of Biden’s career is all but bracketed by tragedy. In 1972, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident; in 2015, one of his two sons who had survived the crash died of a rare strain of brain cancer. These wretched tentpoles are not only tragedies the 76-year-old Biden has had to endure. They influenced major decisions he made about his political career—first, his priorities in the Senate; later, his decision to opt out of the presidential election of 2016. And they defined him as a person as well, according to longtime friends, former aides and veteran politicos in his home state of Delaware.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/joe-biden-2019-profile-grief-beau-car-accident-224178 How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’]</ref>}}

{{Cquote|There is no person in American politics today whose life has been so shaped by loss and grief. The long arc of Biden’s career is all but bracketed by tragedy. In 1972, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident; in 2015, one of his two sons who had survived the crash died of a rare strain of brain cancer. These wretched tentpoles are not only tragedies the 76-year-old Biden has had to endure. They influenced major decisions he made about his political career—first, his priorities in the Senate; later, his decision to opt out of the presidential election of 2016. And they defined him as a person as well, according to longtime friends, former aides and veteran politicos in his home state of Delaware.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/joe-biden-2019-profile-grief-beau-car-accident-224178 How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’]</ref>}}