Abstract
Feelings of uncertainty after traumatic event (i.e., forcefully leaving living place) is a common cause of severe fear (anxiety) which may contribute to development of complex trauma syndrome. Traumatic injuries of such depleted individual’s sense of aliveness might be quite catastrophic causing a perception that one’s identity, togetherness and wholeness is lost forever. In such situation, the individual’s response may lead to a cascade of the events which may result in severe symptoms of the hyperarousal, dissociation, depersonalisation, detachment, recollection of the intrusive events, and avoidance of reminder.
 Separation fear (anxiety) among war-refugees is a broader condition than it is defined as the anxiety disorder in which dominant features are excessive and inappropriate anxiety of the separation from primary attachment figure(s). In war-refugees, the clinical manifestations are realistic worries about harmful things which may happen to the attachment figure(s) who are left behind – condition of persistent fears for loved ones of being killed, tortured, and possible lost forever.
Highlights
Fear of separation from loved ones is very common after traumatic events, such as natural disasters or war trauma, when the periods of separation from loved ones were experienced during the traumatic event (APA, 2013)
Since the Bowlby’s attachment theory (Bowlby, 1973), separation fear as a phenomenon has mostly been focused upon symptoms relationship in children to the letter development of false alarms related to the traumatic event(s)
The separation fear has occupied as a prominent and exclusive place in many theories of the child development and psychopathology, but less attention has been given to the same features among the adults
Summary
Fear of separation from loved ones is very common after traumatic events, such as natural disasters or war trauma, when the periods of separation from loved ones were experienced during the traumatic event (APA, 2013). Since the Bowlby’s attachment theory (Bowlby, 1973), separation fear (anxiety) as a phenomenon has mostly been focused upon symptoms relationship in children to the letter development of false alarms related to the traumatic event(s). In war-refugees separation constitutes a part of the trauma syndrome as traumatic event (war) overwhelms the ordinary human adaptations to life and generally involves threats to life or bodily integrity (Zepinic, 2011). War-related trauma, which may be referred as a complex trauma, is possible the most catastrophic experience in anyone’s life regardless of age, gender, culture, religion, etc. It is a complex, multiple and longstanding trauma syndrome which requires very comprehensive and complex approaches in managing and treating the war survivors. The traumatised war-refugees are overwhelmed by terror and helplessness; their whole life for concerted, coordinated and purposeful activity is smashed; and their attachments could be lost forever
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