Stages of Death and Dying the same for Chronic Illness?
How many of you know of the Five Steps of Grief proposed by the renowned psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross?
Proposed in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying,” she explores the various stages people go through after being diagnosed with a terminal illness or experiencing the death of a loved one.Stages that I have found to be the exact ones I am myself going through dealing with a chronic illness: Denial and isolation; Anger; Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.
Examining the stages of grief and the cessation of mourning.
I absolutely agree that the stages are pretty much identical. When I broke my neck the person who I wanted to be, the person who’s future I was working toward essentially died. I would consider the emotions I went through to be mourning. These are hard things to deal with for everyone involved.
(via crohnsandarthritis)
