“It may be tempting to think that a literal description of grief—for example, the five stages—describes my experience more accurately (and perhaps less colourfully) than the metaphor of shattered glass. The technical, detailed, even scientific descriptions typical of literal language often lull us into the misperception that we know just what there is to know about a particular thing, and thereby have it under control. . . . But this is not the case.”
https://psyche.co/ideas/grief-is-not-a-process-with-five-stages-it-is-shattered-glass
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