What To Do When the Unthinkable Happens: A Guide to Navigating the 5 Stages of Grief After Being Framemogged.

Ever since the tragic framemogging of February 5, 2026, the worldwide panic of the tragedy happening to someone you know (or even yourself) became a realistic fear. While researching how deep this fear went in my school, I came to the conclusion that it was truly serious. Senior Chase’s thoughts on the matter were that it was “possibly the worst event that could happen to someone,” and he took a week off school “in fear of getting framemogged at school”. Shiv, also grade 12, seemed distraught after I brought up the possibility of it happening to him and declined to comment. He was later seen in the cafeteria sobbing. 

Seeing these reactions, I believed it may be prudent to create a helpful guide to navigate the stages of grief that one is bound to go through if such an unfortunate tragedy were to happen to themselves.

Denial:

When the framemogging occurs, you may not believe it at first. You may be shown videos, photos, or, if you are around true looksmaxxing scholars, they may even bring up the PSL scale in order to drive the idea home. Do not try to fight it, as you need to try to reach acceptance. Denying it happened is a mental block from not only accepting, but ascending.

Anger:

Anger. The dread of all true looksmaxxers, the cortisol spike. Forget about trying to get through the steps of grief; DO NOT RAISE YOUR CORTISOL LEVELS. Cortisol spikes can lead to rapid weight gain, particularly around the face and abdomen (which are incredibly important to maintaining a high PSL score), fragile skin, muscle weakness, and fatigue. All horrible things that will impede your ascension, so ensure you move on past this stage.

Depression:

The realization has set in. You don’t have an HTN frame. You don’t have an MMTN frame. You may not even have an LMTN frame. Thoughts such as I’m stuck as an LTN or Acsension isn’t possible may begin to bleed into your brain, lowering your mental health. It is important you continue through it. In such an online world, there are so many helpful resources you can use to ensure your mental health stays up, including but not limited to looksmax.org or r/LooksmaxingAdvice to ensure in these trying times you keep up your appeal.

Bargaining:

The bargaining step. It was the camera angle, or the lighting, or even as far as to accuse the other of being on experimental peptides while you have stayed with MK-677 or creatine. Trying to convince others (and yourself) that it wasn’t that bad. This won’t work. It did happen, it was that bad, and there's nothing you can do about it now. You’re almost there, almost at the end. Months of different thoughts swirling, different emotions flashing, but you’ve almost accepted it.

Acceptance:

Finally. You understand you got brutally framemogged. He works harder than you, has better genetics than you, and he reaped the rewards. But you have vowed never to have it happen again. More hours in the gym, more peptides, more hours delving into the unexplored science of ascending. Next time you encounter someone, you’ll be ready. You’ll be the one sending them down the grief spiral, and you will emerge ascended.