Is this normal?

[Picklesthegreat]

My dad died in 2021 (March) and since then I've actually been struggling to remember what he's like and can only really remember bad things.

When he was alive we had a close relationship, spoke on the phone everyday etc him and my mum was still together but now I can't remember anything about him. I wouldn't be able to anyone anything about him or anything and I don't really understand why.

I'm not sure if it's the same thing as you are talking about but, when my child died, all I could remember for the longest time were the last two years of her life, not all the years before. Eventually the rest started to come back and I got the bigger picture again.

Maybe an unconscious way to deal with this, making you less. Sad now and saving the good memories for when you have more emotion strength ???