NotWorriedAtAll
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It occurred to me that many people seem to go through stages like this with regards to huge changes in their lives and not just when they lose a loved one.
When I saw this diagram it made me think about how lots of people are responding to the Covid crisis and many of them appear to be in the first four stages and it might explain why so many people are acting as if nothing has changed and they are refusing to take precautions or railing against it. I think many people are grieving the pre-Covid life and are stuck in those four stages right now.
Which then led me to thinking about how some people go through something similar when diagnosed with diabetes.
I always seem to skip the shock, denial anger, bargaining, depression stages and tend to leap to the testing and acceptance stages. Maybe because of having spent my entire life expecting dreadful things to happen for one reason or another and so when they do I'm very rarely surprised and I focus all my efforts into making the best of things as quickly as possible. It might be something to do with having my brain wired atypically.
But I find it interesting to spot patterns and I thought maybe people here would find this interesting too.