Fear, Loss, Social Isolation, and Incomplete Grief Due to COVID-19: A Recipe for a Psychiatric Pandemic

Fear, Loss, Social Isolation, and Incomplete Grief Due to COVID-19: A Recipe for a Psychiatric Pandemic

Shervin Assari, Seyede Salehe Mortazavi, Amirali Alimohamadi, Mani Rafiee, Mohsen Shati

The experience of the loss of the relatives, which is naturally one of the most stressful events in a person’s life, has turned into a new concept and challenge for survivors and mental health professionals during the coronavirus era. We discussed how restrictions caused by social distancing potentially increase the likelihood of a phenomenon called complicated grief or prolonged bereavement disorder and multilayer response by case finding to increase the access to public education to manage this complicated situation.

2020

covid-19, Pandemic, Social isolation, loss, incomplete grief

10.32598/bcn.11.covid19.2549.1

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Iran University of Medical Sciences

Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry