A case of affective psychosis following bereavement in a mentally handicapped woman.
Mentally handicapped people are increasingly being subjected to the stresses of everyday life, and bereavement represents a particularly potent stress. This report considers the case of a mentally handicapped woman whose difficulty in mourning and expressing and sharing grief had a profound effect on her recovery from bereavement and led to her developing an affective psychosis.
McLoughlin
I J
IJ
Darlington Memorial Hospital.
Bhate
M S
MS
D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001601:Bereavement; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013315:Stress, Psychological