| The Kübler-Ross grief cycle |
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| Written by psydchick | |
| 09 February 2008 | |
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For many years, people with
terminal illnesses were an embarrassment for doctors. Someone who could not be
cured was evidence of the doctors' fallibility, and as a result the doctors
regularly shunned the dying with the excuse that there was nothing more that
could be done (and that there
book, called 'On Death and Dying' which included a cycle of emotional states that is often referred to (but not exclusively called) the Grief Cycle. The Grief Cycle can be shown as in the chart below, indicating the roller-coaster ride of activity and passivity as the person wriggles and turns in their desperate efforts to avoid the change. The initial state before the cycle is received is stable, at least in terms of the subsequent reaction on hearing the bad news. Compared with the ups and downs to come, even if there is some variation, this is indeed a stable state. And then, into the calm of this relative paradise, a bombshell bursts...
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