I lost my mum in may last year from cancer and it still doesn’t feel real that she’s gone. I keep thinking she’s gonna come walking through that front door from work, or getting a text from her asking to get some shopping or to take the dogs for a walk. I’m just so lost without her
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Hey!
I lost my mum around 18 months ago after - ironically an 18 month battle with cancer for the second time.
I never left her side and after she died I was stuck in grief. I was recently diagnosed with prolonged grief disorder.
Don’t beat yourself up, have those thoughts grief comes in waves and we’re never the same again. never the same to the point my fiancee left me 18 months ago due to how much I’ve changed and my health anxiety and she just couldn’t handle it anymore.
I’m still stuck in denial about my mum. I think about her and can’t remember a time before she was sick. Even now it doesn’t feel real. I’ve recently been going to therapy and while it’s helping a bit. It still takes a long time.
I read recently it takes minimum 2 years to even start to heal and upto 4 to ask for help!!
Don’t feel bad for still feeling this way. I think after such a traumatic event as cancer - it will take a long time, you won’t want to accept a new normal and that’s okay.
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