Bizarre Examples Of Denial Cases
Case 5: PURPLE
Denial. She does not want to believe her loved has gone, she did not recognize the death either. It is hard for Purple to accept it at first, that in a split second her loved one has left unexpectedly without any warning and goodbyes.
The opposite of accepting the reality of the loss is “not believing” through some type of denial. Some people refuse to believe that death is real and get stuck in the mourning process. Denying the facts of the loss can vary in degree from a slight distortion to a full down delusion. Bizarre examples of denial through delusion are the rare cases in which the bereaved keeps the deceased body in the house for a number of days before notifying anyone of the death. Gardiner and Pritchard (1977) describe
six cases of this usual behavior, these people involved were either manifestly psychotic or eccentric and reclusive.
Denial. She does not want to believe her loved has gone, she did not recognize the death either. It is hard for Purple to accept it at first, that in a split second her loved one has left unexpectedly without any warning and goodbyes.
The opposite of accepting the reality of the loss is “not believing” through some type of denial. Some people refuse to believe that death is real and get stuck in the mourning process. Denying the facts of the loss can vary in degree from a slight distortion to a full down delusion. Bizarre examples of denial through delusion are the rare cases in which the bereaved keeps the deceased body in the house for a number of days before notifying anyone of the death. Gardiner and Pritchard (1977) describe
six cases of this usual behavior, these people involved were either manifestly psychotic or eccentric and reclusive.