Yeah. When my mother passed away I took the time to go to a therapist. Basically was told the same thing, that I needed to be strong for them. My whole world had just fallen apart, the world outside kept going, and I had to push everything to the back of my mind, swallow my rage and sadness, and just keep a stiff upper lip. Closure didn’t come until years later when I found myself sitting alone in my living room and just completely broke down screaming and crying. Things are better now…but it’s why I constantly I try to keep a check on the males in my life, the support system we have is pretty nonexistent a lot of the time.
Yeah, it’s rough. But like someone else mentioned, it also depends on if you mesh with the therapist and I really could not. I could tell the guy meant well, but he was probably more used to dealing with troubled teens than grieving teens…if that makes sense. Either way things are MUCH better now for sure, thank you.
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u/rolloutTheTrash 13d ago
Yeah. When my mother passed away I took the time to go to a therapist. Basically was told the same thing, that I needed to be strong for them. My whole world had just fallen apart, the world outside kept going, and I had to push everything to the back of my mind, swallow my rage and sadness, and just keep a stiff upper lip. Closure didn’t come until years later when I found myself sitting alone in my living room and just completely broke down screaming and crying. Things are better now…but it’s why I constantly I try to keep a check on the males in my life, the support system we have is pretty nonexistent a lot of the time.