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TERRIFIED of Treatment
I’m not sure I can convey in writing how terrified I am I’m not sure there is a word to describe it the worry I feel is debilitating, I already suffer from anxiety and this is just exasperating it, i ...
Before I had cancer, I had a tendency to ‘catastrophise’ - imagine the worst that might happen if anything went wrong. Treatment pretty well cured me of that - I learned not to waste my energy on things that might never happen, so I had more energy to deal with the things that did happen! And when I did deal with them, I realised that I could handle a lot more stuff than I knew before. Cancer made me a lot more calm - yes, it’s a ridiculous way to learn that lesson but it is what it is!