Superior Mind wrote:
Bruce-SuperNub wrote:
Superior Mind wrote:
If you think to yourself "Omg I have cancer and I'm not going to make it, this is the end. I'll never be the same again." Then chances are you will either be sick for a long time or you will die. My step sister had cancer recently and she was always in bad moods, depressed, and I guess angry. She had stage 4 cancer when they found it. She had a really hard time with it all. She is getting better now but she is still not in the clear. I feel if she had had a more positive attitude and didn't mope around depressed, she would have had a more speedy and less painful experience.
Depending on her age you couldn't expect her to act any differently. If i got cancer, i would be depressed, angry etc. You don't hear alot of good comments with the word "cancer".
I don't think i'd be able to be positive when it comes to things like that.
She's 24.
D.A.B.D.A.
Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
Some people will miss out some of the stages, but this is, in general, the stages we go through when we grieve (and was summed up very nicely in a scene in a Simpson episode).
Many people grieve for themselves when they learn that they have cancer. The families of cancer victims often have it the hardest - they end up grieving twice - once when they learn their loved one has cancer, and again when that loved one dies.
