This bit isn't fun either
Everyone around me expects me to be party central three weeks after finishing treatment. I thought I'd be happy too.
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Yeah, @K_LeeB it's really not that easy, is it?
Heaps of us have had a bit of a post treatment melt down.
It's not unusual, after months of carefully keeping everything together, to completely loose your shit and have a monster tantrum because the wheelie bin lid is up. Or because the other drivers are all idiots. Or because the thing you cleaned yesterday is dusty again.
Ditto ferocious crying jags because of...pretty much anything.
One of my other favourites is feeling disappointed about feeling disappointed.
It's an emotional and hormonal rollercoaster. Having folk assume that once you are no longer a walking science experiment who looks like they are rehearsing for a job as a Halloween decoration, you are magically 'all better' is not helpful. Buggered if I know how to make that stop.
Time seems to be the only remedy. It's easier to feel happy when something good happens, rather than when something bad stops.
MXX
Heaps of us have had a bit of a post treatment melt down.
It's not unusual, after months of carefully keeping everything together, to completely loose your shit and have a monster tantrum because the wheelie bin lid is up. Or because the other drivers are all idiots. Or because the thing you cleaned yesterday is dusty again.
Ditto ferocious crying jags because of...pretty much anything.
One of my other favourites is feeling disappointed about feeling disappointed.
It's an emotional and hormonal rollercoaster. Having folk assume that once you are no longer a walking science experiment who looks like they are rehearsing for a job as a Halloween decoration, you are magically 'all better' is not helpful. Buggered if I know how to make that stop.
Time seems to be the only remedy. It's easier to feel happy when something good happens, rather than when something bad stops.
MXX