Complicated grief is a
situation in which the individual, faced with a loss, does not present adaptive
responses in dealing with this stimulus. This study aimed to understand how
Complicated Grief may be a factor that may interfere in the sleep process, seeking
possible relationships between these two themes. Thus, a review of the
literature dealing with complicated grief and the sleep process has been done.
It can be observed in cases of Complicated Grief, individuals tended to present
problems related to sleep, either alterations in the amount of sleeping hours
or greater difficulty in getting to sleep. Further researches are needed to
relate Complicated Grief to the sleep process since those are two aspects that
can be related.
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