My dad recently died

My dad died a week ago and my heart is broken. He was diagnosed in early November with the most aggressive type of brain tumour there is. He fought till the very end but I had to help care for him in his final months. It's taken so much from me. I've barely been eating. I wasn't sleeping for days at a time and every time my phone dinged I shot up scared out of my mind. I'm so fed up of everyone saying the same thing of "it's going to get better" and "he's at peace" I know all this but I can't help feeling like this. I'm so angry. I'm angry that there's no treatment for the type of cancer he had. I'm angry that I couldn't do anything to stop it. I'm angry at myself for being upset and making everyone else feel worse. I don't want to do anything anymore. I have exams this month and I've barely remembered anything because these past few weeks he's constantly been on my mind. I want to feel happy and celebrate his life but I can't ignore the fact that he's gone. I just miss my dad so much. I would do anything to have him with me still. 

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  • Sorry for your loss I lost my mum in November to bowel cancer I feel very similar to you have been feeling. My mum was my best friend I also feel very angry the treatment is frankly useless and pretty much as bad as the actual disease. I'm also feeling the same as you fed up with people telling me it gets easier at the moment I don't feel that way even at mums funeral a friend mums I never even met came up to me and said that and I was like you have no clue how I feel I know she was trying to be kind but I didn't want to hear it. I don't really come on chat forums but thought it might help as maybe we aren't alone. 

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  • Sorry for your loss I lost my mum in November to bowel cancer I feel very similar to you have been feeling. My mum was my best friend I also feel very angry the treatment is frankly useless and pretty much as bad as the actual disease. I'm also feeling the same as you fed up with people telling me it gets easier at the moment I don't feel that way even at mums funeral a friend mums I never even met came up to me and said that and I was like you have no clue how I feel I know she was trying to be kind but I didn't want to hear it. I don't really come on chat forums but thought it might help as maybe we aren't alone. 

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