Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Everyone can find it difficult to deal with a breakup or loss. Every person experiences it in a different manner and heals in a different way. Going through a breakup can be very difficult and stressful, and there’s no one way you’re supposed to feel about it. Often, you are filled with many confusing emotions at once, and you may wonder if what you’re feeling is normal. For a while, you might even become overwhelmed with emotions, it’s normal to feel this way. It’s quite a process to ‘let go’ of a person you really loved or the reality you thought existed. Your mind has to re-adjust to a new way of being without this person in your life.
Here are some of the stages to go through an emotional break-up –
Shock and denial: The initial phase of a loss involves being in shock and not fully understanding whether anything has actually happened. We can find it difficult to deal with the shock of things happening because we are often checking our phones and inboxes to see if we have received a text.
Desperate need for solutions: We have a desperate need for answers to everything from self-doubt to the relationship in which we have put our feelings. We also keep an eye out for a sound closing.
Fear, loneliness and sadness: The third stage is characterized by feelings of extreme sadness over the loss, fear of being alone, and being trapped in loneliness.
Bargaining: At this point, we begin to imagine possibilities in order to put off feeling down. Sometimes our self-imposed temporary solutions succeed, but ultimately we end up back where we started.
Anger: When we feel betrayed and left behind, we start to be angry at the person for doing this to us. We start to calculate the emotions, affections and love that we invested in them.
Peace and acceptance: This is the stage when we start to heal and put ourselves ahead of others. We start to accept things as they are and prioritise our peace.
Forgiveness: This is when we forgive the other person, our younger version and move on from things with kindness.
