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Hugin

(33,222 posts) Tue May 26, 2020, 10:48 AM May 2020

It looks as if it is now time to review the stages of grief.

I know, I'm a day late and probably a dollar short on this. (I've been a little strapped for cash, lately.)

However, all of these scenes of crowds going about what they've done in the past as if everything were the same as it seems it always has been, is a sure sign that there are large swaths of the population who are grieving the old 'normal'.

Right now I believe many are passing through what is generally the first stage: Denial

"The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with what we've lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

The biggest danger of Denial and acting out on it in the current crisis is it very well might make matters worse. Both, as a society and for individuals.

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It looks as if it is now time to review the stages of grief. (Original Post) Hugin May 2020 OP

PSA kick. Hugin May 2020 #1

We all are likely in some stage of grief. Grief &Mental health is going to be a complicating factor BlancheSplanchnik May 2020 #2

The return to the old old normal has been so rapid and inflicted on a population who are so... Hugin May 2020 #3

Hugin

(33,222 posts)

1. PSA kick.

Reply to Hugin (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2020, 11:10 AM

May 2020

Things move so fast these days.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

2. We all are likely in some stage of grief. Grief &Mental health is going to be a complicating factor

Reply to Hugin (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2020, 12:06 PM

May 2020

For us all in the this era of chaos and loss.

Just my usual point—> Overpopulation kills.

Hugin

(33,222 posts)

3. The return to the old old normal has been so rapid and inflicted on a population who are so...

Reply to BlancheSplanchnik (Reply #2)

Tue May 26, 2020, 12:17 PM

May 2020

ill-prepared.

Y'know, the old old normal where death and disease are humanity's constant companions.

We had a few decades there where humans with their technologies were able to believe they were masters of all and controlled the clock. All things were infinite, when the only thing which is infinite is suffering.

But, that's all gone now. The real reality has reasserted itself.

Yep, overpopulation drives it.

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