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● Five Stages of Grief - A Kübler-Ross Model

The five stages of grief could be described by the Kübler-Ross Model. They are shock,
anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Acceptance is the stage where we try to
bring our patients to. Helping them to accept that we are facing a very difficult period

which is COVID-19. When we see our patients including our front liners, they are
experiencing these 5 stages of grief.

Example of people in the bargaining stage: the most common example which we
could see is in people who are trying to cross state borders during MCO. In my
opinion, this could be categorized as one of the stages of grief. The public is trying to

make sense of the movement control order and what has been imposed by the
Government. As psychiatrists, we will try to make things look more normal in this
period of abnormality for everyone, by listening attentively to what our patients or the

clients try to explain to us, and understand the types of loss that they have to go
through, which has been stated on the picture below.