Ruth Kübler-Ross Five Levels Of Grief

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Relationships are not easy to build. The longer the relationship, the deeper the feelings that you put. Not all relationships are successful. There comes a time that there will be pain, unhappiness or heartbreak. In every heartbreaks, we experience grief. Grief is a strong impression of being sad or who lose their loved ones. In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross presented the “five levels of grief”. It was established in her own book On Death and Dying. These were based on her studies of the feelings of patients facing terminal illness. Also, these stages describe the process of grieving the death of a loved one and is similar …show more content…

Denial is the first stage. This phase is the first reaction dealing with denying the reality of the state of affairs. Sometimes we attempt to forget the words and hide the fact. Also, it is a defense mechanism that bumpers the urgent shock. A hope can occur in this stage, which can cause them to think of the things somehow working out. Second is anger, when denial and isolation begin, reality and its pain re-emerge. In this stage, we may get angry with yourself, God, friends or even the person who abandoned us. We may also feel a need to blame someone for the unfairness that was done to us. The next stage is bargaining. After a loss, bargaining may take the form of a temporary peace in their feelings. Guilt is often a bargaining’s associate. We want to go back to the way it was before or to restore our loved one. We may often think the “what if’s.. if onlys..” statements that cause us to find faults to ourselves and “think” that we could have done differently. We may also even bargain with the pain, remain in the past and do anything just to not to feel the pain of