#mental health

“Chemo Brain” Is a Growing Problem for Cancer Survivors

The CALM program “intervenes proactively rather than just waiting for people to get distressed, anxious, depressed, and overwhelmed.”

Don’t pity me because I got sick — but DO understand how quick the line between health and sickness can be crossed.

What do you do to help your body and mind heal after something as traumatic as cancer?

Cancer doesn’t discriminate and it’s completely and utterly unpredictable. It isolates you and then it takes your friends.

Be kind to yourself and do not expect yourself to be exactly what you were before — your brain and body have been through a lot.

Whether consciously or subconsciously, I came to terms with the idea of recurrence a while ago.

Compared with the general population, they have much higher rates of death from HIV, viral hepatitis and other causes during this time.

I’m mentally exhausted from constantly thinking about this.

No matter what, I cannot get pulled under or back into the fears and worries of before — that is no way to live.

I hope one day to get to a comfortable place where disaster is not the first thing I think of.

In writing this down, I guess I have to admit that it does make sense that I would be tired.

Mental health screenings during and after cancer treatment are increasingly becoming the standard of care.

I am not the me I would have been had my plot twist of cancer not hit me right in the middle of chapter 39 of my book of life.

With all these wobbly moments where I feel lost, forgotten and unknown I just need to remember how far I’ve come.

For people with health-related anxiety, the internet can be very dangerous.

We treat our bodies and help them to heal when we are sick or injured; why should our mental health and brains be different?