Grief isn’t just one emotion: It doesn’t always look the same; sometimes it’s expressed through crying, sometimes it means sleeping a lot, and sometimes it might not look like sadness at all
Photo: Wassily Kandinsky/Wikimedia Commons If you’re grieving right now, you’re not alone: Whether you’ve been personally impacted by death or illness, or whether you’re grieving on a broader, more systemic level, it’s normal to not feel normal about the coronavirus pandemic and all its tragic consequences. Grief doesn’t always look the same, either; sometimes it’s expressed through crying, sometimes it means sleeping a lot, and sometimes it might not look like sadness at all.
Kübler-Ross died in 2004, but her model — also known as the Kübler-Ross model — has proven hugely influential and helpful for people trying to understand their own range of emotional responses to tragedy and suffering. Below, each of these five stages is defined and explained. Important to note is that the five stages do not necessarily occur in the order listed.
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