Steve Milan, LCSW is a therapist in Austin, TX who works primarily with men and couples. He is also a father, a son, an ex-husband, an ex-CPA, a partner to his sweetie, and an Ultimate Frisbee player. Steve has been writing for his own sake off and on over the years.
I just had a quick reaction to the subtitle about denial being “the first stage” of grief. The original “5 stages of grief” idea was not meant to be a list of discrete steps that a person is supposed to go through in that order. It was never mean to be like a 12-step program. They’re more like “aspects” of grief, warning people that there are many ways of experiencing grief and you may go from one to another and that’s totally okay and common. These five are the most common, and they most commonly happen in roughly that order,… Read more »
I just had a quick reaction to the subtitle about denial being “the first stage” of grief. The original “5 stages of grief” idea was not meant to be a list of discrete steps that a person is supposed to go through in that order. It was never mean to be like a 12-step program. They’re more like “aspects” of grief, warning people that there are many ways of experiencing grief and you may go from one to another and that’s totally okay and common. These five are the most common, and they most commonly happen in roughly that order,… Read more »