The Kubler-Ross grieving cycle is fractal, and you start out at medium scale (days to weeks/stage). You don’t even recognize larger time scales untilenough time has passed.
The 1 year/stage fractal level will take at least 2 years post-traumatic-event to recognize for example
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And the largest timescale is lifetime-scaled, it's a human-complete problem
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