We know from the research that complex grief, by which we mean people who are not allowed to grieve in the normal way, the natural way for those who are privileged to have family, friends, space and time to recover their normal lives, can tip people into more serious mental health issues. That can be suicidal ideation, anxiety, depression or enduring features of mental health that make it difficult for people to recover their balance and to rejoin their community and their lives, their work and their family in the way that healthy grieving allows us to do.
I can say that one of the places that helped me and our two teenage children when my wife died was a local cancer organization that had a bereavement group. That organization, like many charitable organizations, has lost funding and donations, and it's been laying people off at a time when the need for these kinds of supports for people is greater than ever. There are all kinds of things that can happen. Remember, too, that just because you lost someone close to you doesn't mean that you haven't also lost a business or a job, or that you don't have other strains of the pandemic, of trying to work with children at home or going into a stressful or even a dangerous environment. It's the complexity of pressures that is particularly difficult.