Answer: probably depression
Explanation: if you where in denial, you wouldnt be asking “what if” or “if only” because you are refusing the truth that something happened entirely. Therefore that line of questioning would never even come up, because you did nothing wrong and nothing happened, it’s all okay. “What if I did ____”… if you did what? Nothing happened so there’s no need to regret.
Its not anger because a person whos angry would never think something as desperate as a “what if“. “what if” is a very desperate thought because regardless of how many other things could have happened or been said, what happend happened and thinking “what if“ wnot change anything. they would this something more along the lines of “cracker what happened!” Because they’d have realized by then that thinking the “what if” is pointless what happened, happened and they are mad about what happened.
its really between bargaining and depression. but I feel like bargaining is more of a “we can work this out, come on” “don’t give up on us, you’ve got too much to loose… the dog, the tv… the bed.”
and you always see people in movies thinking the “what if” then change in a second to “cracker the what if, that changed nothing” straight to being angry so if the change is that quick then there was no time for another stage in between so it has to be depression.