The five stages of grief were written to describe dying people, not the bereaved. When applied to those left behind, it creates a mirror effect: both the dying and the living grieve in parallel.
So all of those stages of grief actually were about the people that were dying, not those left behind. And it's gotten, like, transferred that it's about the people left behind. And I find that so interesting that it really does mirror.
Like, I come.
Back. It mirrors.
Yeah, because that's absolutely accurate. And it mirrors those left behind. And the studies that came from it actually go into anticipatory grief, where when you hear the news that somebody is ill and it could be five years down the road, there's a person that has a disease and it could take a long time. The anticipatory grief, the stages are identical. Right. And it's like, well, this diagnosis can't be true.