How you deal with disclosure of your diagnosis is your own choice - a decision that you make according to your own circumstances and one that you need to be comfortable with. Your true friends will understand this and will support you one way or the other.

People who are not as strong as you, unfortunately, will disguise their weakness by finding fault no matter which way you go. Denial, feeling sorry for yourself, not being honest - whatever they say, your job is not to satisfy the doubters but to get the most out of your own life.

Smile. And get a dog.

Lobo
Your friend is quoting or rather misquoting the work of E Kubler Ross on the stages of grief. Dr. Kubler Ross later stated that she had never meant for the stages of grief to "help tuck messy emotions into neat packages". There is no single pathway or progression through loss, no one path and that is the main fault of any attempt to stage responses like this.

What was written as a description based on observation sadly to some has become prescriptive of the right way to respond to grief or loss.

To say you are in denial because you are not responding how the other person thinks you should is just wrong!

Hi, Dilmar.

Thank you for your comments.

Will you please elaborate further the following paragraph?

"Dr. Kubler Ross later stated that she had never meant for the stages of grief to "help tuck messy emotions into neat packages". There is no single pathway or progression through loss, no one path and that is the main fault of any attempt to stage responses like this"

Regards,

Lobo