A funny thing about the "stages of grief" is that they are a total myth and the originator of the hypothesis never intended them to be abused this way.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross did her research solely on people who were dying: people with terminal illnesses, and she studied how they coped with facing their own mortality. Not how other people did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_K%C3%BCbler-Ross

And of course, even for a dying person, this may be total bunk. It is not like some programmed flowchart that people go through five stages of emotional stuff. This is just, like, a framework for further therapy.

I'm actually studying this stuff right now. In the 1980s and 1990s, "The Five Stages of Grief" were basically a household phrase, and everybody talked about them like they were real and true and invariable. But everyone doing the talking had never actually studied the research or even knew who proposed it. They were just parroting headlines.

All models are wrong some are useful , BRO.

(Ps I’m sad you deleted your comment to me in the other thread , I was enjoying our conversation, even if you seem a little emotionally disregulated and unstable)