Grief

I lost my mum in March, now nearly 8 months ago to pancreatic cancer when I was 24. Me and my mum were really close and I miss her so much even the little things like watching X factor together or going to the shops. I’m still crying almost every evening and find it so hard to get past the darkness even though I try to tell myself there will be happier days. Sometimes my thought send me a bit crazy and she was the one I would talk to whenever I was down, now I feel there’s no one to listen. I am going away next week but just can’t look forward to anything and feel guilty for going. 

How do we try to get ourselves into a more positive and happier mindset when we’re going through so much pain?

  • Hi there sorry you lost your mum .you know what you are going through is pretty much how it is grief makes us crazy for a while but it does get less painful but we are all diffrent but when your young it hurts more you have to just have to  plod on slowly having a good cry is good for you so just try and get through each day as we as you can dont hide away meet up with your friends if your sad or have a weep they will not mind i forced myself to go out because knew that if i didnt it would be even more painfull if you havnt arrange yourself some bereavment counciling it realy helps because for however long it lasts the councilers listen they dont judge and they dont try to change the subject allso theres the cruz bereavment chatline numbers free to call its on the web but do ring them .you may have a bereament group in your earea you can go and be with people it helps because you dont feel like your the only one suffering there will be someone comes along and have a chat with you on here keep talking thats the best thing .best wishs paul ps you know guilt goes hand in glove with grief why should you feel guilty because your going away your mum wouldnt want you to feel guilty because theres nothing to feel guilty about but we do another crazy thought but the guilt feelings go to we all get them .

  • Hi I'm 42 and too lost my mum in March the 24th it was my brothers 30th birthday and she died in front of him. You are so young to lose your mum, I need mine so much and I'm double your age we always will need our mums it's like losing apart of me I only live for my daughter but then do I mean that, I got to be honest I have had enough of waking up every day with no mum I know how you feel you can't look forward to anything if you do your brought right back down again then it all happens again I'm on antidepressants which slightly helps but they have reached there peak now , I wish there was something magical to say to you but there's not all I can say is that we have done this for eight months and here we are I think if I died I'd want my daughter to live her life so I know mine would this however doesn't make it easier does it have you got other family x