Feeling anxious and insomnia post treatment .
Hi, Ruth here, living in Cannonvalley, Queensland. I had r/o small cancer surgery and Radiotherapy 4 months ago. I thought I was doing well and went back to work, part time. Then collapsed in a mess o...
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Sorry you are doing it tough just now @Roberts ... I think the wheels 'fall off' now & then with most of us - and it can bring on a mini depression .... (even a major one.) It is also 'normal' to have anxiety & insomnia - and going back to work may have triggered some reactions that has caught you off guard xx
This disease actually mucks more with your brain than your actual body, I reckon - and our brain can chuck a wobbly at any time. :( Continue listening to Charlotte Tottman's podcasts (from the beginning) as I reckon you'll identify with a lot of the 'issues' that she had to deal with as well .... specially coming from a counselling point of view prior to being diagnosed - which I believe has CHANGED, since her diagnosis.
Jump onto this thread & see some other areas in the forum that you may like to check out? You can show us your furkids, or grandkids .... your pets, garden, art & craft & even some 'funny stuff' .... and there are even some 'tick sheets' down the bottom, that you can print off - to self assess how you are going? xx
https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/discussion/23477/a-big-welcome-to-all-our-new-members#latest
Try & keep yourself busy doing stuff you LOVE doing - and try some physical exercise as well, to tire yourself out, so hopefully you will sleep better ..... I think many of us suffer from insomnia - I am one. grrr
take care & all the best
This disease actually mucks more with your brain than your actual body, I reckon - and our brain can chuck a wobbly at any time. :( Continue listening to Charlotte Tottman's podcasts (from the beginning) as I reckon you'll identify with a lot of the 'issues' that she had to deal with as well .... specially coming from a counselling point of view prior to being diagnosed - which I believe has CHANGED, since her diagnosis.
Jump onto this thread & see some other areas in the forum that you may like to check out? You can show us your furkids, or grandkids .... your pets, garden, art & craft & even some 'funny stuff' .... and there are even some 'tick sheets' down the bottom, that you can print off - to self assess how you are going? xx
https://onlinenetwork.bcna.org.au/discussion/23477/a-big-welcome-to-all-our-new-members#latest
Try & keep yourself busy doing stuff you LOVE doing - and try some physical exercise as well, to tire yourself out, so hopefully you will sleep better ..... I think many of us suffer from insomnia - I am one. grrr
take care & all the best