'I didn't know how to grieve'

By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News

When Sophie Rudoff's father died she was both calm and angry.

What she did not do was lock herself in her room and rage or rebel.

But she worried that this measured reaction was wrong.

She thought she knew from films and books how she should react.

Not a stereotype

"When something like this happens you see on TV that the kids go off the rails and start taking drugs and being really teenagery.

"I have never been like that, thank God.

But I was worried because I was not behaving like that and thought people would think I did not love him."

Sophie's father died unexpectedly when she was 13.

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