JessicaV
12 years agoMember
About Chemo
Hi, I have done the Mastectomy bit of this process, and my surgeon told me yesterday that it is quite likely that I will have chemo. I understand this could be for one of three main reasons:
1) if ...
Hi, I am truly sorry if my question has led to distress and hurt.
I am a psychologist, and the whole area of how mind and body work together fascinates me. Our culture does not understand the word psychosomatic, which is about the interaction of the somatic and the psychology of the individual and mostly deals with factors that are deeply unconscious and beyond the conscious awareness and management of the individual. Nothing at all to do with the profound effort I am sure almost everyone on this forum applies in order to be as positive as possible. I would love to find out whether there are real measurable differences between the group of people who get sick on Chemo and the group of people who doesn't, esp if it made it possible to improve things. There could be links back to deep past trauma, it could relate to childhood attachment patterns, it may be that people who are thinking types do have a lot more symptoms than people who are intuitive types.It seems like a good area to explore, esp if it was possible to make it better for those who currently have a really bad time on it. I wonder what research has already been done?