The Five Stages -- Kubler Ross theory

[Guest guest]

Hi Bobby,

You brought up how a nurse had once warned you that you would go

through 3 stages of accepting your disease after you were diagnosed.

There is a well known theory that Kubler-Ross came up with that

outlines 5 stages that people are supposed to go through when they

get diagnosed with a life threatening disease. The stages are:

1) Denial

2) Anger

3) Bargaining

4) Depression

5) Acceptance

Like you, I didn't go through any of the first stages either, I seem

to have skipped straight away to number 5. Interestingly though, I

did watch my husband go through the first two stages. He was sure

that the lab had made a mistake and he was very angry about it.

I wonder how many people went through the stages as outlined and how

many skipped a few stages.

Tracey