Time Heals? Options

[Jess]

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals and that I will feel better with time, but the weird thing is, I don't feel like time is passing. I don't feel like I'm moving farther away from my cat's death. Every morning when I wake up, I feel like it happened the day before. It's like I'm stuck. Every morning, it feels like a fresh wound to my heart. I don't feel like I'm ever going to get past this and enjoy life again.

[gossamerwings]

Hiya Jess,

I understand you totally. Our pets are members of our families and we love them so much. I know that whether their passing is recent or not so recent, the feeling we get constantly is as you say that it happened only yesterday. For me it is just over a week since I found my little birdy had died. He was playing with me at the night time as we both went to bed late all of the time. The next morning I found he had died. No warning of him being unwell or anything, in fact he was in robust health and very, very mischevious. It totally devestated me. He was such a big part of my life, the only person to love me as much as I loved him and the only person I had for company. I miss him so much.

I don't think that the pain of loss can just go away when you love the little beings so much. Don't try to be strong for others, express how you feel if you can, allow other people to understand how deep you are hurt and above all be yourself and and grieve in your own way.

I hope that peace of mind will come for you. You are in my thoughts.

gossamerwings