You have trouble letting people out of your life.

Even when someone is no longer bringing you happiness or any positivity.

They take a stab at understand and be supportive, but they really have no idea.

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Madison Bersuch

Therefore, youre forced to face this horrendous nightmare on your own.

Ultimately, this makes your thoughts, feelings and actions very difficult to understand to the people around you.

You have trouble letting people out of your life.

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It brings back the loss of your loved one all over again.

You take a lot of pictures.

Pictures and memories are all you have left of your parent.

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Madison Bersuch

Its only normal for you to take that into the other areas of your life.

You have learned how short life really is and the way in which anything can be happen.

Someday, these pictures may be all you have left of these people.

Not everyone will understand that this has manifested from the major loss that youve been through.

You are often negative about potential outcomes before they even happen.

You have had to deal with one of the hardest things someone your age should ever have to.

To some people, you may appear cold, or bitter.

You dont cry as much as you used to.

It now takes a lot more to get you to show pain or emotion.

Youve had one of the most terrible things happen to you and not much compares to that.

It often freaks your friends and loved ones out how comfortable you are with the conversations surrounding death.

Its something that society does such a great job trying to ignore that you are overly familiar with.

This has become your life.

This is the hand youve been dealt and its normalized to you.

To you, its normal and its your life.

To everyone else, they cant understand why this is such a simple concept to you.

We arent the same person that we were before this, and we will never be that person again.