Grief

Graham O'Brien is haunted by the memory of his wife, Grace. (TV: Arachnids in the UK ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, 2018).)

Grief was an emotion. Grief had five stages, ending in acceptance. The Shroud fed on grief, and exploited victims who had recently lost a loved one. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow ^[+]Tommy Donbavand, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2013).)

According to Graham O'Brien, "[grief] needs time". He decided to continue travelling with the Thirteenth Doctor as a way of coping with his grief regarding the death of Grace, rather than wait for it to "go away", and let it consume him, in a house filled with the memories she had left behind. When he did visit their home, Graham's grief manifested in his mind in the image of Grace, who spoke to him. (TV: Arachnids in the UK ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 11 (BBC One, 2018).)

In response to negative emotions such as fear, grief and anger, at certain points in history humans took medications to remove and override them. (AUDIO: Harvest of the Sycorax) Some people used anti-depressants to help cope. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow ^[+]Tommy Donbavand, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2013).)

When the Emojibots first encountered grief, they considered it an enemy of happiness and thought of destroying it. They called upon the Vardy to kill anyone who wasn't happy, stripping them of skin, organs and muscle leaving behind their skeleton, which later would be used to make calcium-based fertiliser. (TV: Smile ^[+]Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).)

A range of Super-Vocs were built on Kaldor to act as bereavement counsellors. SV39 was among them. (AUDIO: Love Me Not ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) They were ultimately unsuccessful as the necessary empathy chips conflicted with their other circuits. (AUDIO: The Robots of Life ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Seventh Doctor created the John Smith persona to help him understand the human emotion of grief that Bernice Summerfield was feeling after the death of Guy de Carnac (PROSE: Human Nature ^[+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).), a man she loved, who had sacrificed himself to save them. (PROSE: Sanctuary ^[+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

When the Twelfth Doctor returned to Gallifrey, a Time Lord author suspected that, after having spent 4.5 billion years in his confession dial, the Doctor had been driven mad by his grief over the death of Clara Oswald leading to his unhinged actions. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords ^[+]Steve Tribe, BBC Books (2017).)

When the Doctor's memories were put on auction on Nomicae, the Ninth Doctor broadcasted his grief about the Last Great Time War to all the orbiting fleets. Overwhelmed, the fleets left the area. (COMIC: The Bidding War ^[+]Cavan Scott, Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor (Titan Comics, 2017).)