I cant stop seeing the images of my dad dying

My dad had lung cancer and had a lobectomy, the right lung what was left was too damaged and they told us he wouldn't be coming home, the day I went to visit him, the doctor came and said he had been talking to my dad over the weekend and my dad had asked for the oxygen to be removed. I didn't even have time to process what was about to happen it just happened there and then he has a whiskey through a straw then removed the oxygen hood. I had to sit and hold his hand and just watch the life drain out of him and struggle for every last breath, I constantly relive that day in my head I can't sleep a couple of hours a night it's just always on my mind. I was really close with my dad as he's brought me up since I was 8 after my mam lost her battle with leukemia 

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  • I had a similar situation with watching my dad die of a head cancer 11 years ago and I ended up with ptsd. Insomnia, nightmares, developed phobias, anxiety etc. I really recommend counselling - you've had so much to process in such a short space of time. It helped me enormously to talk and have someone listen without judgement or trying to tell me "he's in a better place", or trying to rush me to "move on"... whatever that means. I managed to find counselling with a charity, donation only  x

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  • I had a similar situation with watching my dad die of a head cancer 11 years ago and I ended up with ptsd. Insomnia, nightmares, developed phobias, anxiety etc. I really recommend counselling - you've had so much to process in such a short space of time. It helped me enormously to talk and have someone listen without judgement or trying to tell me "he's in a better place", or trying to rush me to "move on"... whatever that means. I managed to find counselling with a charity, donation only  x

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