I'm taking a subject that wasn't what I had originally planned on writing about but the more I thought about it the more I thought that it's something that I need to share with all of you. The subject is grief. When we think of grief we usually associate that with dying, but that’s not the only time grief happens. You go through the stages of grief when you go through something traumatic, when you've lost something of value or when you've been diagnosed with a life changing disease. Grief comes in five stages, they usually come in an order but sometimes you can be in stage 4 and revert back to stage 1 or something like that but either way you go through them. This past semester in college I had a class and we were discussing the stages of grief and my teacher pointed out that it didn't just mean for people that were dying or that had loved ones die. After I read about it in my textbook I realized that I had been through the grief stages more than once. Stage 1- … [Read more...]
