Cancer World is the Only World that Exist

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divina913
divina913 Member Posts: 45
edited June 2014 in Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts

Ever feel as if your just NOT interested in anything else that's going on out there?? I'm so focus in my cancer world that i don't find myself getting excited about anything else that's happening around me. I also feel that my great awesome support family & friends are sometimes probably are getting tired of hearing my situtation. I can talk about my breast cancer all day me!! And i like hearing other women's experiences & see how they coped. I just wish i can TUNE this cancer world out longer so that i can have FUN & Enjoy Life!!!

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  • Wendyspet
    Wendyspet Member Posts: 246
    edited March 2012

    oh yeah! 

    it gets better as time goes by, but you've heard that before.  In the meantime, have you thought about talking to your doctor?

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2012

    You're not alone Divina !!

    What I miss most from my "before" life is the carefree mood I see in people not having to deal with cancer. I really really miss that  

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  • CoolBreeze
    CoolBreeze Member Posts: 4,668
    edited March 2012

    Part of the process of recovery is learning on how not to focus on your disease.   I think it's important, once treatment ends, to start living a healthy life, and not focusing on the illness you had.  I know the fear of recurrence is ever present but it has to fade to the background at some point.

    I think people can make a plan for recovery.  Either with counseling, or not allowing themselves to think about cancer all day.  Stop reading forums all the time, reading articles about cancer, start exercising and eating healthy.  Decide to move back to health. Wean yourself off it, like a drug!  :)

    Not all of us get the chance to get away from it so take it as long as you can! 

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  • LuAnnH
    LuAnnH Member Posts: 8,847
    edited March 2012

    I agree with coolbreeze, as good as these forums can be, sometimes they keep you locked in this cancer world.  This is a place that is safe, comforting and people understand what you are feeling so it is very easy to get hooked on thse boards.

    I was wrapped up pretty tight in the boards a few years back and this was all I would talk about when I talked with my friends.  I had to stop reading all the time and make some new friends that weren't in the cancer world.  Got involved in other things, took a few classes, one of them was dealing with my hobby.  But it put me back in the world where you didn't constantly think about how  you have/had cancer.  It is like any healing process, it just takes time and you will find yourself going back to that cancer-free life.

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