[oxfordmale]

It is more a disjointed roller coaster. Some stages of grief can be skipped all together or aren't experienced in a linear order.

[coldtea]

I think this sibling comment covers my point well:

"Did you ever expect that there were discrete and linear stages? I always assumed that these were emotional “attractors”, different emotional states that we migrated through without any particular vector. More like a cruise through a dismal archipelago."