A man coming from a 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 a 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 in fact, 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 normal.Denial of ceain aspects of the death is normal; denial that includes the belief that the dead person is still alive is not normal.GriefIs a normal response of an individual to the loss of a loved object which presents with:- Various physical & mental symptoms like sighing, crying, choking, breathing difficulty, weakness, etc. - Preoccupation with the memory of deceased- Sense of presence of deceased & misinterpretation of voices & faces of others as that of lost. - Seeing a person in dreams & fleeting hallucinations.Abnormal Grief Exaggeration of one or more normal symptoms of grief- Duration > 6 months. Pathological/Morbid GriefComplicated Grief1Associated with psychotic orneurotic illness* Chronic Grief* Delayed Grief* Inhibited Grief =* Anniversary Reaction=Duration > 6 monthsOnset after 2 weeks of lost (death)Denial of lossGrief reaction on the death anniversary Over idealization of the deceased.
Normal grief
Grief psychosis
Bereavement reaction
Supernatural phenomenon