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| Topic | CEmen who have sick parents/loss a parent...how do you cope? |
| SquantoZ 06/12/19 5:18:02 PM #8: | Hey TC. I lost my younger brother earlier this year in January. My relationship with him was stronger than what I have with both of my parents. Sometimes I thought of him like a son because I always felt very protective of him. To answer your question, try to be around people. It's incredibly hard. I asked myself a million questions and tried to figure out how to cope and couldn't figure a single thing out. I cried every few hours or so and still do about once a week now. I think about him constantly every single day. But being around loved ones really helped me not lose my mind. We cried together. We comforted each other. We were just there together in the same house for a week until the day of the funeral. And luckily I get to come home to my wife every day. I'm still battling the depression and it doesn't go away. You just sort of go about life and it gets a little easier at some point. I'm still often angry and sad but I try to keep busy. One bit of advice is to be there as much as you can. Hopefully, your dad recovers but if things look grim, be there for him until the end. I have this huge guilt over my shoulders because I was unable to be there for my brother the whole time as he was in another state. I tried to be as much as I could. I would sometimes spent a week at the hospital with him and work remotely. But it kills me inside that I wasn't there on his final days. Everything went downhill super fast and we had no time to be there quickly. Be there for them and I imagine it will help you cope a bit better. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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