So my family have asked me to get help
I'm coming up to my 1st anniversary of being diagnosed. In a recent conversation with my family I have been told that I need to get help, that I need to find someone to talk to because my feelings are...
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Thank you ladies for your feedback. I havnt been on this site for a while, I guess I went away and tried to get on with things and deal with the new normal. I found myself lost yet again, so I jumped back on to this site and see some of the same faces offering their valuable experience..the same faces that helped me enormously almost 12 months ago when I was initially diagnosed..thank you for still being here to help people like me. I also see new faces offering support, Im sad to see you here but a big thank you also.
There is no right or wrong way to deal with breast cancer, just like there is no right or wrong way to grieve. An instruction book written out for each and every one of us just maybe available in the future...wishful thinking. I can honestly understand why some soldiers who made it back from war never ever told their stories to their families. My grandfather landed on Gallipolli and never once spoke of his memories.
I dont get asked very often at all by my family "how are you going?". I dont hold this against them at all, I mean Im doing incredibly well physically...but mentally...thats another story. So when I very rarely get the opportunity to actually speak, I see the horror on their faces. Ive always been one to "say it as it is" and its so frustrating to see the blank, dumbfounded faces when I do sometimes speak. Then to be told...you need to find someone professional to talk to...well, I then feel that maybe its just not worth answering a "how are you going?" question that might pop up down the track.
Its sometimes a very lonely journey this breast cancer bus ride...until I jump back onto this site. XO
There is no right or wrong way to deal with breast cancer, just like there is no right or wrong way to grieve. An instruction book written out for each and every one of us just maybe available in the future...wishful thinking. I can honestly understand why some soldiers who made it back from war never ever told their stories to their families. My grandfather landed on Gallipolli and never once spoke of his memories.
I dont get asked very often at all by my family "how are you going?". I dont hold this against them at all, I mean Im doing incredibly well physically...but mentally...thats another story. So when I very rarely get the opportunity to actually speak, I see the horror on their faces. Ive always been one to "say it as it is" and its so frustrating to see the blank, dumbfounded faces when I do sometimes speak. Then to be told...you need to find someone professional to talk to...well, I then feel that maybe its just not worth answering a "how are you going?" question that might pop up down the track.
Its sometimes a very lonely journey this breast cancer bus ride...until I jump back onto this site. XO