I'm Not Emotional About My Mother's Death

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I'm Not Emotional About My Mother's Death - Chris is concerned by the lack of emotion he feels over his mom's death. - Dr. Laura: "Feelings add to the texture of life. Free yourself to feel yours." - How are you with expressing feelings? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. Chris welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you.
0:18.0	My mother passed away August 12th of pink. We had a cancer and I have yet to feel any emotion surrounding that and that in itself has become very bothersome to me.
0:38.0	First of all, it's impossible to have felt no kind of emotion because we have you have an emotion right now.
0:46.0	But let me go back how long was she sick? She was sick for two years.
0:53.0	And when you heard the diagnosis, did you have an emotion?
0:58.0	I did. I did. And I went through surgery and as she went through chemo and as she went through the ups and downs and the terrors and the fears and the exhaustion. Did you have feelings?
1:14.0	I did, but not the ones that I would expect or feel like we're normal. I feel like I should.
1:21.0	So when she first got sick, what was the abnormal feeling you had?
1:28.0	Well, when she first got sick, the feelings were normal. It was sadness and grief. And I feel like I can we can can I ask questions? Can I ask questions?
1:40.0	Sure. Okay. I'm just trying to understand. You showed what you think are normal emotions at the beginning. How about in the middle?
1:49.0	Yeah, a year ago. She took two years to die. So after a year of being terribly ill.
1:58.0	With all the treatment, what kinds of feelings would you have when you thought about her or saw her?
2:04.0	Hi, you know, not.
2:07.0	Can you just describe the feelings? Tell me, don't tell me what they're not.
2:11.0	Describe what they actually were. That would be helpful for me to understand.
2:16.0	They were normal, just mother. Can you not judge them as normal or abnormal and tell me what they were? Please.
2:26.0	You having a hard time doing that for some reason?
2:29.0	I am because I don't know. I'm not connected to them. I don't believe I was maybe feeling anything during those times that I did visit her.
2:44.0	I doubt that's true.
2:51.0	And that's why I'm having a hard time understanding all of this. That feels so disconnected from it completely.
3:00.0	And what does the loss of your mother mean to your life?
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