oss of a loved one is a very painful experience that can cause grief (1). Grief is a psychological reaction to the loss of a loved one that can appear in many different forms (2). Different forms of grief are not considered as disorder per se, since grieving for such a loss is normal (3). However, some people may still remain mournful for years after the passage of the normal course of grieving (4). In this case, the person develops complicated grief, which is characterized by separation anxiety and includes loss-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that complicate the mourning process. Under such circumstances, the person shows symptoms, such as disbelief, difficulty in accepting reality, and the painfulness and bitterness of loss, and manifests an excessive desire to pursue the deceased (5, 6). Recently, a great deal of attention has been paid to complicated grief as a disorder characterized by symptoms, such as loss-related disturbing L