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Hi, Don't know really where to start or what to say. But I guess my current struggles are with losing my Dad a couple of months ago to cancer. My Dad is my hero. Like most girls Dad's are. When my Dad got really sick and we knew we only had a few months left with him, I moved home to help my Mum care for him and to spend as much time with him as I could. But that entire month I was there, it was so hard as I watching my hero deteriorate. I watched him take his last breath and sat with him and told him how much I loved him. I just miss him. Miss him more and more every day. I feel like since losing him I have lost my will, strength and determination. All the things he instilled in us as kids. I have no drive at work, I keep making mistakes in life and I am so angry at the world. Something little will set me off and then I feel embarrassed for my going crazy and yelling at people. I feel like a failure all the time and that I'm just a crappy human. I just feel really lost and if he was alive I'd be letting him down with how I am acting. He wouldn't be proud of me and that makes me more upset.
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Mydogiamytherapist and I hope that is true, what a great name.
My dog, I hope it is ok to shorten you name, Welcome to this forum which is full of kind and supportive people.
I am so sorry for the loss of your dad to such an awful diseas,
Firstly you are a great human being a wonderful daughter. Wha you are experiencing is grief
The first year isnoften the hardest aftervthe koss of a loved one and the first three months are very difficult as you learn to cope without someone you loved and admired.
You are not crazy but you are grieving and we all grieve in our own way and there is no one right way to do it.
Being nagrynis th epartbofvthe grieving process!
It may be too soon, butvthere are groups for grief support or grief. Iunsellors who. An explain what you are doing is all part of grieving.
When my dad died I was angry at daughters who had a da$ but never saw them or took them for granted.
Can you talk to your mum or is that too hard?
If you want o keep talking here feel free to post.
One thing I did was to start a file on the computer Dear Dad, and I’d write down na6hying I would have tol dome if he was alive. sometimes Intold him how sad I was and othe times I told him family news. It helped me as I missed our chats.
You are confused and upset and this is all part of oping with grief.
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