denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance...

‘(…) that’s how you stay alive. When it hurts so much that you can’t breathe, that’s how you survive. By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won’t feel this way. It won’t hurt this much. (…) you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes and let it go when we can. The very worst part is that the minute you think you past it, it starts all over again… and always, every time, it takes your breath away… ‘

Grey’s Anatomy, season 6, episode 2 «Goodbye»