Increasingly difficult to care for someone who's become angry

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My dad has terminal cancer, stage 4. No prognosis yet. He is is very depressed and becoming increasingly angry and short tempered. I'm really struggling, to manage his moods. He doesn't really have any support apart from me. The diagnosis has been a shock and I know he is scared and afraid of losing control. I don't know how else to support him. Sometimes I feel he doesn't want me there but then if I didn't go he would think I didn't care.

GRANNY59 21 days ago

Hi Rosebud123 welcome to the forum..It's so hard for both of you right now and I think you may be right he will be scared and frightened. I noted that you said there had not been a prognosis so who has said there is nothing they can do. Lots of people live with incurable cancer and have treatment and live well..Have any of the Cancer teams spoken with him or enabled him to be able to ask any questions he may have..If not then maybe that's worth considering at this point in time. Without any of that detail he only has a bad scenario to go to but there may be treatment that he could have. Gail xx

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