http://positivetranceformations.com.au/blog/the-five-stages-of-grief-2/ The five stages are denial (“This can’t be happening.”), anger (“Why me? It’s not fair?”), bargaining (“I’ll do anything if only…”), depression (“It’s all hopeless”) and finally acceptance (“I can cope with this.”).
3. This is the first stage of grief, the stage
when the impact of the loss hasn’t
really sunk in.
4. You wonder if you’ve just been
imagining those symptoms, or that the
doctor has made a mistake, or that
your significant other is just making a
bad joke about leaving you.
5. “This can’t be happening!” is a good
way of summarising this stage. This
stage never lasts long.
12. An excellent example of someone – or,
rather, two people – going through this
stage is found in Dylan Thomas’s
poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That
Good Night”, where the poet tells his
dying father that “Old age should burn
and rave at close of day;/ Rage, rage
against the dying of the light.”
13. Read this poem aloud – it might help.
Or use physical activity as an outlet,
even if all you can do is punch a pillow.
15. Here, people try to focus on what they
can do to change the outcome
(needless to say, this stage doesn’t last
long if you have lost a loved one to
death or if you have lost your home to
a natural disaster).
16. You try to make a deal that will stave
off an impending loss.
17. In the case of divorce or redundancy,
this bargaining sometimes does reverse
the inevitable, but it doesn’t always.