5 Stages Of Grief

Throughout life one experiences grief through the loss of a loved one, a tragic event, and the ending of relationships. As a result to dealing with these feelings, one experiences five specific stages in their journey of recovering: denial, anger, bargaining, depression,and acceptance. Each stage is built off of eachother. Disbelief turns into rage and rage turns into compromises. However, the stages of grief don’t necessarily have to be in a specific order. For instances, you might feel angry that about losing your job. Then you might reason with yourself that you might be able to talk sense into your boss about his decisions. Despite the changes in self conflict one thing remains certain, the all of the stages are experienced.
The first
Moreso, anger is felt in replacement to denial. You or any other nother person sympathizes towards anger despite the fact it does not change the situation, Furthermore, using the prior example given about a mother her loss her son, she would now enter the stage of grief where she may resent herself for not telling her son to stay home. She may also be angry at the hospital for not “trying harder” to save his life. In fact, you will feel bitter towards the world as a whole for taking something that once belonged to you. Frustration boils down to anger; which will lead into the next stage of
In this stage one will ask starts saying things on the lines of, “Will if I do this…” or “Maybe I can…” to try to fix whatever damage has been done. The main focus of the third stage is reasoning. Moving onto another example, a man who found out he is dying from cancer may try to bargain with God. Saying, “God, if you let me live, I promise not to a selfish man,” and so on… You will try to change the situation some how and game so control. The fact of the matter is no one wants to die or accept a possible loss. To compensate for this they try to bargain their way out.
Unfortunately when bargaining does not work out the person enters a youth stage of grief known as depression. Depression can make a person distant, sad, tired, and lose the ability to function in society. After realizing the end result will mostly change you will become sad. The loss of someone or something does take take an emotional toll. To better illustrate this stage, use the scenario of the man dying of cancer. He realizes that no matter what he does or say his condition will not get better. Upon realizing this he becomes sad. He distances himself from everyone as he thinks about his