Navigating Grief and Identity Loss After Retirement

Navigating Grief and Identity Loss After Retirement

by Matthew Bartolo·20 February 2026

A retired surgeon's struggle with identity loss, purposelessness, and depression — and the existential therapeutic journey to discovering who he was beyond his career.

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