A Swiss American psychiatrist and pioneer of studies on dying people, Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying,” the 1969 book in which she proposed the patient-focused, death-adjustment pattern, the “Five Stages of Grief.” Those stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. “In the actual book, she talked about more than five stages,” Kessler said. While there’s debate among experts about the stages of grief, “people who are in the pain of grief are just saying, ‘Help me,’ ” Kessler said. Here’s what the five stages of grief are, and how you can consider and process them in whichever order you experience them. Intense and persistent grief that causes problems and interferes with everyday functioning, in a way that typical grief doesn’t after some time has passed, is known as prolonged grief disorder, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

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