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This 7 page paper offers a personal reflection of feelings and grief following the diagnosis of autism in a child. The paper includes literature on issues like grief process and depression and integrates the person’s own feelings and reactions. The essay includes comments on God and faith. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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coped in different ways. My comforts were food and occasionally alcohol which gave me comfort and numbed my feelings for a short period of time. This paper explores the grief
process and depression. It also considers how God helps one through the really tragic times in ones life. The essay is a reflection on my reactions to the diagnosis.
Reflection Heaney (2002) is quite correct when she says that people in Western cultures are not taught anything about how to deal with grief. We tend to associate grief
almost exclusively with death but as the author states, grief is likely when we feel any type of loss (Heaney, 2022). This could be the loss of ones job, the
necessity to move, a divorce, etc. (Heaney, 2022). The fact is that people may well feel grief if there is a major change in their organization. Change upsets our equilibrium
and threatens our security. It represents a loss. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1969) proposed a grief cycle that we each journey through when we experience a loss. These are a series of
emotional states she identified as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance (Kubler-Ross, 1969). People initially deny the event has happened or the outcome is wrong because the tests were inaccurate
or anything else they can think of to explain away the event. After the denial is no longer possible, anger sets in. This stage might also involve rage, resentment and
even envy. This stage is even more difficult for family and friends to cope with because the person will take it out on everyone around them. In other words, they
displace their anger. In the bargaining stage, the person will do things like try to make promises to God, e.g., if You take this away, I will do ....... When
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