“…Pandemics in general have been known to cause depression, anxiety, fear of death, fear of losing loved ones, and post-traumatic stress disorder (Akat & Karatas, 2020;Taylor, 2019). Similarly, current research reports that a great number of people experience negative psychological conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, loneliness, distress, fear, anger, and fear of stigmatization (Alyami et al, 2020;Arslan et al, 2020;Cao et al, 2020;Kong et al, 2020;Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, 2020;Tanhan, 2020;Yang et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Wheaton & Ward, 2020). Intense fear of coronavirus is evident in the literature as well as in the media, as one particular study reported suicides related to COVID-19 (Mamun & Griffiths, 2020), and other media sources reported that multiple individuals lost their lives since they did not seek medical treatment for their non-COVID-19 related illness due to fear of contracting the virus at the hospital (CNNTURK, 2020).…”