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On Death and Dying (Elisabeth Kubler Ross)
Five Stages of the grieving process on death and dying.
I. Denial and Isolation
A. In Shock refuses to accept their illness and treatment.
B. Aids to stabilize, less radical defenses, and to remain sane.
C. Separates self, feels rejected by family, and health care team.
II. Anger
A. Denial replace by anger, rage, envy and resentment.
B. Doctors are inadequate and nurses are the target of their rage.
C. Ventilating helps Patient by expressing his feelings.
III. Bargaining
A. Promise God a life dedicated to him for additional time.
B. Patient promises to obey all of their doctors orders for more days.
C. Patient continues to bargain until their time of death.
IV. Depression
A. Reactive Depression with loss of health and financial burdens.
B. Preparatory Depression to separate form this world is a sad time.
C. Needs active involvement of others, sit silently, or pray with them.
V. Acceptance
A. Submits self to final rest before the long journey.
B. Void of cathexis (emotional energy) ready to detach from friends and loved ones.
C. Contentment in rest, sleep, peace of mind.
Hope exists through all stages such as a cure, discovery of a new drug, or last minute success
in a research project. Many focus on Bible Scriptures, such as Isaiah 33:3 Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not. Hope helps people to maintain their Spirits. Communications with the terminally ill is of most importance.
Five Stages of the grieving process on death and dying.
I. Denial and Isolation
A. In Shock refuses to accept their illness and treatment.
B. Aids to stabilize, less radical defenses, and to remain sane.
C. Separates self, feels rejected by family, and health care team.
II. Anger
A. Denial replace by anger, rage, envy and resentment.
B. Doctors are inadequate and nurses are the target of their rage.
C. Ventilating helps Patient by expressing his feelings.
III. Bargaining
A. Promise God a life dedicated to him for additional time.
B. Patient promises to obey all of their doctors orders for more days.
C. Patient continues to bargain until their time of death.
IV. Depression
A. Reactive Depression with loss of health and financial burdens.
B. Preparatory Depression to separate form this world is a sad time.
C. Needs active involvement of others, sit silently, or pray with them.
V. Acceptance
A. Submits self to final rest before the long journey.
B. Void of cathexis (emotional energy) ready to detach from friends and loved ones.
C. Contentment in rest, sleep, peace of mind.
Hope exists through all stages such as a cure, discovery of a new drug, or last minute success
in a research project. Many focus on Bible Scriptures, such as Isaiah 33:3 Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not. Hope helps people to maintain their Spirits. Communications with the terminally ill is of most importance.
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I find all defined stages of bereavement and grief quite unhelpful. One day you can get through the day without a hitch surprised at how well you are doing. The next day you are a tearful,wobbly wreck and feeling emptiness and yearning that a certain circle of grief dictates you should have left behind. Helpful or what!
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the grief stages dont follow themselves in order. one week you can be angry, the next week feel acceptance, and then a week later you can be angry again. they all come and go, in different orders, and not in succession. one month you think you are okay, then it hits you and you start over again. but its always getting easier, no matter what the succession of the stages are.
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I have seen this happening with me. It is nice to know what is normal.
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These are the defined stages of grief. They are very unpredictable. I was hopping from one stage to the other For the 10 months my husband was hospitalized. Then after his death I started all over again. What helps is knowing this is normal and flowing through it.
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What about post traumatic stress disorder? I have spent 8 years in one, not in denial, just closed to any emotion. The pain too great, the shock too huge. It took 2 weeks to go through the whole grieving process, no anger, no feeling of rejection, just acceptance. I counsel the suicidal, I don't think your rule books apply to them. I do know that you are not given the means to cope with dying until it is time.
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Everyone that has posted a reply so far is right. I have found this book useful if for no other reason than to let me know I'm not totally crazy...that the way I feel is "normal."
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
