Psychological and Spiritual Condition of COVID-19 Survivors (A Literature Review)

Abstract

Spirituality remains an interesting research topic, particularly during this COVID-19 pandemic era. Scholars are concerned about how COVID-19 survivors fight against anxiety and depression whose sources come from outside and from within themselves; how the COVID-19 survivors improve their spirituality during the isolation. This literature review shows that at least there are two available means for COVID-19 survivors to obtain psychological support, and there are two ways to find spiritual comfort when they are surrounded by the escalating number of the COVID-19 death count. Psychological supports could be obtained from themselves and their closest persons by thinking positively and exchanging news with other family members. As with psychological supports, spiritual comfort could be obtained from themselves and their closest persons, e.g. by reading religious literature and performing religious rituals in such a sincere a way that they eventually give them spiritual strength during the isolation.