The 5 Stages of Emotional Brain Damage

Following the 5 stages of grief to heal from emotional trauma typically involves more than just 5 stages.

Pete
5 min readJan 7, 2024

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Borderline narcissistic abuse personality disorder healing emotional trauma
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Healing from emotional abuse is not a linear path. The Kübler-Ross model of grief is the 5 stages most in healing are familiar with: denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance. One can find themselves skipping around…

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Pete

I am a survivor of a toxic marriage and years of emotional abuse and trauma.