[czzr]

No, I’m sure that can’t be right - the stages of grief are so well known they must be true.

I mean, c’mon - have books and films just been lying to me all this time?!

But maybe it’s not completely wrong - there must be a core of truth to it if it resonates so well. Maybe we can preserve that even if we don’t stick to the specific stages.

But how could I have been fooled by this for so long? What’s wrong with me that I believed it so unquestioningly?

But it’s not just me - this predates awareness of the reproducibility crisis in social sciences. It’s not so surprising that it doesn’t replicate. I’m sure there’s a deeper understanding out there, and this model wasn’t so bad as a stepping stone to that.

[rob74]

As the end of the article also mentions, in a more recent book:

> ... Kübler-Ross remarked that the five stages are “not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Not everyone goes through all of them or goes in a prescribed order.”

So these are more the possible reactions that someone may have to a grievous event - not everyone will experience all reactions, and also will definitely not go through them in the given order.

[rootlocus]

A bit forced, and they all sound like denial, but I can see all the stages if I squint.

[highduc]

Could it be that the fact that the stages are "known" makes for a bleak perspective for whoever is going through them, without a sense of escape from it, and that makes it so that people prefer to attack this perspective in a sense of hoping for these steps to be actually wrong/not true? This to me seems more of a "nah please tell me another story that doesn't make me feel so bad", which I can also understand to a degree, but that doesn't change the realness of those "steps".

[drewcoo]

Sure. Horoscopes "work" that way, too.

[oxfordmale]

The five stages of grief belongs in the same circle as hell as the other HR nonsense. It all resonates well but little is based on scientific evidence.

[Cthulhu_]

I see what you did there

[coldtea]

>I mean, c’mon - have books and films just been lying to me all this time?!

Or this random internet opinion article does...

[glandium]

Are the stages of grief even well known outside the US?

[coldtea]

Yes. Half the world away from the US here.

[glandium]

Never encountered it in neither France nor Japan, outside of US entertainment.

[coldtea]

Do you read a lot?

[slowmovintarget]

Clapping

All five, in order; nice.

"Alas 5 stages, we hardly knew ye."