Am I weird?

Hi. We lost my mum on the 1st sep from metastatic renal cell carcinoma. She was only diagnosed 7 weeks prior to her passing. In the last 3 weeks of her life it spread like wildfire to her whole body. When she passed I cried for about 10 minutes and then nothing till her funeral last week. I’m not great at funeral anyway but I just feel numb. Am I weird for not crying and showing more emotion. My mum was my best friend and I feel annoyed at myself for being less emotional. I just feel like it was such a short period of time and I don’t know how to feel. 

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  • Hi,

    I’m really sorry for your loss- losing parents is so hard. It sounds as though everything happened so quickly with your mum, and it must have been a real shock for all of you. 
    We all deal with stressful and emotional situations in different ways- there’s no ‘right’ way to grieve. With both of my parents I dealt with it by throwing myself into work- I probably didn’t really let myself grieve properly, but that was my coping mechanism. I’m not sure I would have felt any better if I’d have cried all the time. 

    I hope you will be able to treat yourself with kindness- you don’t need to give yourself a hard time over this.

    much love xx

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