A man coming from mountain whose wife died 6 months prior says that his wife appeared to him and asked him to join her. The diagnosis is
B i.e. Grief psychosis Bereavement, Grief or Mourning is a psychological reaction of those who survive a significant loss. Differences between normal & abnormal grief: Identifying with deceased person such as taking on ceain admired traits or treasuring ceain possessions is normal; believing that one is the deceased person or is dying of exactly what the deceased person died of (if infact this is untrue) is not normal. - Hearing the fleeting, transient voice of a deceased person may be normal; persistent, intrusive, complex auditory hallucinations are not normalQ. Denial of ceain aspects of the death is normal; denial that includes the belief that the dead person is still alive is not normal. Grief Is a normal response of an individual to the loss of a loved object which presents with: - Various physical & mental symptoms like sighing, crying, chocking, breathing difficulty, weakness etc. - Preoccupation with memory of deceased - Sense of presence of deceased & misinterpretation of voices & faces of others as that of lost. - Seeing person in dreams & fleeting hallucinations. Abnormal Grief Exaggeration of one or more normal symptoms of griefQ - Duration > 6 months.Q Pathological/Morbid Grief Complicated Grief 1 Associated with psychotic or neurotic illness * Chronic Grief * Delayed Grief * Inhibited Grief = * Anniversary Reaction = Duration > 6 monthsQ Onset after 2 weeks of lost (death) Denial of loss Grief reaction on death anniversary Over idealization of deceased.
Normal grief
Grief psychosis
Berevement reaction
Supernatural phenomenon