In my position here I speak to many, many people with serious disease, and so I am constantly seeing attitudes of 'management' of their condition.Frankly, the way people respond to serious disease seem to align quite well o Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' states of grief (bargaining, anger, denial, depression and acceptance). Michael seems a wonderful benchmark for the acceptance phase, evidenced to me by a comment he made to Dr. Oz on Oprah.
Perhaps I don't have it word perfect.. but he said something like "The good thing about Parkinson's is that you soon give up vanity."
It got me thinking; what are the pointers in the disease process that allow us to move through the stages of grief to acceptance? And to what degree does vanity, ego, self-image affect our ability to come to terms, accept and emotionally move on?
Love to hear your responses.
