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When You Google, “What Are The Stages Of Grief”
This past Thursday I discovered that I have moved from the anger stage of grief to the grief stage of grief. It had been a while since I had looked into the stages and my mind being the steel, albeit rusted, trap that it is…
The five stages of grief are:
- denial
- anger
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
This according to Healthline, Wikipedia, et al. You can move through them in any order. You can repeat some of them without moving on to a new one. You can also do what I’ve done, which is get stuck.
Parking Brake Set in Anger
Until the last few months, I had been so pissed off for so long at everything that I had accepted it as my new normal. It was just the way that it was. I had become a rage-filled product of my lifetime of experiences. I didn’t think about it. It just was what it was. It was logical, predictable, understandable
… and exhausting.
Rage Didn’t Always Work
Unfortunately for me, rage worked too well for too long. And when I say “worked” I mean I got the desired results I was after. That means getting people to shut the hell up that had no business blowing their hole in the…
