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Working Through Your Grief
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In the 60’s and 70’s psychologists outlined "stages" of grief describing the typical emotions one can expect to experience based on the best-known list of stages developed by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book "On Death and Dying."
In it, she outlined the five stages that most people can expect to experience when dealing with a loss or facing a terminal illness.
Denial: begins with an outright refusal to accept the circumstances.
Anger: may be directed at the world, the circumstances, the people in their life.
Bargaining: occurs when bereaved individuals attempt to make last-ditch "deals" with God.
Depression: is trademarked by feelings of deep sadness.
Acceptance: happens when the bereaved finally accept their loss.
The bottom line is that these stages are just an educated idea of how grief tends to play out, rather than a hard and fast rule. Psychologists currently believe that the concept of “stages” is confusing to grievers and should be avoided.
For more on this subject check out my YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/user/sisterhoodofwidows/videos