Cycle of Acceptance

 

Bargaining Stage

 

After the anger has dissipated, the next stage is a desperate round of bargaining, seeking ways to avoid having the bad thing happen. Bargaining is hoping that the bad thing that is coming, won't actually happen.

Bargaining in illness includes seeking alternative therapies and experimental drugs. In organizations, it includes offering to work for less money (or even none!), offering to do alternative work or be demoted down the hierarchy. One's loyalties, debts and dependants may be thought of as ways of being saved.