What are the 'five stages of grief' described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross?

What are the 'five stages of grief' described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross?

The five stages of grief described by my co-author, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She first identified them in 1969, in her book, "On Death and Dying", and the stages have now become as legendary as she is. They are very well-known, and commonly used by many people to identify milestones that we go through in grief. But, as she always said, those stages are as individual as we are. We're all going to go through them in different ways. They don't have to be linear. You don't have to have one month for each stage. Some people may spend more time in anger and less time in depression. They are very different, and we always say that one of the biggest misconceptions is that we have to follow the stages, when the truth is that the stages reflect where we are. So just do your grieving, and you may notice from time to time: "oh, I'm in that stage", but just know that it's not a prescribed formula that you have to do. It just helps you normalize where you may be. And you may go through the stages more than once.