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When a disaster or misfortune or tragedy strikes us,
we cannot accept it easily. We ask " Why Me?" or "why
this should happen to me?" ----We disbelieve the
occurrence in the first place; we deny the event or
situation....This is called "denial phase" by
psychologists....we pass through this and come to terms
with the new or altered situation. We learn to accept
the situation or limitation. From denial phase we move
on to acceptance phase.
When we accept the new situation as perfectly normal
or rare abnormality and then we also learn that such
things happen to many people in this complex world
with our complicated human body and mind , we can
evaluate our situation with certain calmness...Here
statistics helps---"One in 5000 will get -------- before