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Not coping with the loss of my mum

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I lost my mum 3 weeks ago due to brain cancer and I'm absolutely devastated, I feel so empty. I am married with children, although I'm functioning I just have no desire to do anything I hurt too much inside. My mum was diagnosed in may and 5 months later she is gone.i don't know how I am going to move forward from this as the pain is so raw and nothing like I have experienced before.

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    Hi there I came across your post and can totally relate to you although it's been a year since my mum passed away with brain cancer. Sorry for your loss. Even though it's been a year I am struggling but time is a healer. I have good and bad days. You will get through it! I think about my mum every day and it still hurts. She wasn't only my mum she was my best friend. Are you getting any support? I went to councelling and it really helped me!
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    Hi thank you your reply, and sorry about your mum too. It was the same with me mine wasn't just my mum we did a lot together and it's so hard now she's gone. I have booked a doctor's appointment twice and cancelled twice because I don't want to be put on anti depressants. My mum was only just 65 and I feel I wasn't supposed to be her time if it hadn't been for the tumour.

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