Dealing with the guilt of surviving childhood cancer. Feel like I've done nothing with my life.

I was actually born with jaw bone cancer didn't get noticed till I was 3 or 4 I was on a test chemo meaning it was still getting researched at the time I was on chemo for 3-5 years told it was benign and full discharged at 12 I'm 22 now and I just get flashes of memories of all the kids I knew and In the middle of the night the alarms going off and them being taken away when I was younger I was fed stories that they got better lived lives but now I know that isn't true I look at me one of the only ones that did get out and I've done nothing with my life I feel ungrateful for my second chance I often wonder what if it were me that died and one of them survived would they have done better than me I feel like I don't deserve to be the one that survived I wasted my life that was already a miracle why was it me and not one of them how do I deal with the guilt of being the healthy one

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  • You're only 22. Your life is only beginning. Few people have done much qith their lives at 22. Most are still at uni or taking a break after realising the uni course they choose wasn't for them or working an entry level job. 

    And you don't have to do something major in life for it yo be worthwhile anyway. You don't have to earn your survival.

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  • You're only 22. Your life is only beginning. Few people have done much qith their lives at 22. Most are still at uni or taking a break after realising the uni course they choose wasn't for them or working an entry level job. 

    And you don't have to do something major in life for it yo be worthwhile anyway. You don't have to earn your survival.

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