Many people never fully appreciate their health until they suddenly have to
face the fact that they now have an illness that is not going away. This
new state of affairs can make you feel angry and depressed, and it’s hard
to get beyond the question “Why me?”
People commonly work through what Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has identified as the five stages of adjustment as they learn to accept a chronic illness. There are feelings of denial, anger, depression, bargaining and acceptance. All of these feelings are natural, and there is no fixed time schedule for your passage through the stages, and many times the stages overlap.
