Contents:
- Medical Video: The mental and emotional feelings after breast cancer, DCIS. Sad, anxiety, and what to do.
- What might you feel when you are diagnosed with breast cancer again?
- What can you do to overcome it
Medical Video: The mental and emotional feelings after breast cancer, DCIS. Sad, anxiety, and what to do.
Some people think that breast cancer that comes again after being declared cured, sometimes feels like a punishment. They have had to suffer from breast cancer and side effects from the treatment once. And now, they have to suffer the same suffering for the second time. Therefore, negative feelings are natural. Let's see what feelings might arise.
What might you feel when you are diagnosed with breast cancer again?
You have breast cancer again. This means you have to re-experience the emotional status that you thought you passed after the previous breast cancer. You may feel scared, angry, anxious, and depressed. You might be wondering if cancer treatment is effective.
You may feel angry with your doctor or other health professional, and for yourself. You might wonder if your doctor isn't as good as you thought, and you can't fight cancer.
You may feel afraid of the future because you don't know what will happen to your life.
You may also feel angry and ask yourself: "Why me? Why do I have to experience it twice? "Or, in some cases, you might be able to accept reality and accept a diagnosis with positive thinking.
What can you do to overcome it
Even though feelings and negative thoughts are natural when you get breast cancer again, this can affect your physical health if you don't deal with it. In some cases, this can lead to depression and fear later on. There are several techniques and therapies that can help you deal with these emotional problems, including:
- Counseling: You can seek help from professionals. Counseling can be done in a separate place, warm, comfortable, and safe. Counselors can help you explore your feelings, why you feel them, and how to overcome them. Don't feel embarrassed, tell the counselor about your problem, so he can help you.
- Relaxation: Stop thinking and go to sleep, or take a bath with hot water. Or, you can do a massage. These things can help you relax.
- Open minded: Think about the present, about what you have, what makes you happy. Focus on smell, taste, sound. Your life is still beautiful, so you should try your best to fight breast cancer.
If your feelings do not get better, or even cause other problems such as loss of appetite, loss of life, loss of interest, lack of sleep, or difficulty concentrating, you should contact a doctor.
If you have breast cancer for the second time, that means you have to suffer from negative feelings and thoughts for the second time. This is something natural. You may feel unhappy when you get sick. However, don't let the negative mood control your life.
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