EMOTIONS EXPERIENCED DURING CANCER TREATMENT: DENIAL, AVOIDANCE
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
Denial is usually the second and most common emotion felt by the cancer patient and sometimes by his or her own families. It is hard to believe it could happen to you. Once again a feeling of disbelief is followed by denial or avoidance of the situation. You may think such thoughts as, ‘This is not happening to me, this is impossible, someone has made a mistake.’
We often go through life thinking we are invincible, that diseases like cancer usually happen to other people, not to someone like us. Many people believe that cancer usually affects sick, aged and stressed individuals. However this is not always the case. Go into a chemotherapy room or the cancer ward in a hospital, and look at all the babies and children and teenagers and young adults, some very healthy looking, being afflicted with cancer. How could a baby experience so much stress in their short lifetime to develop cancer? Or why is the fit athlete having chemotherapy for bone cancer?
Of course, then, it is easy to go into self-denial and protest when being informed that you have cancer. Denial is a form of human self-defense. If I deny this, then it’s not true. However, at some stage you must face the fact that you have developed cancer and learn to accept your condition, to be able to encourage the healing process. Denial in its essence accompanies disbelief, which ultimately accompanies pre-determined judgments on the way things arc meant to be. By releasing your conditioned judgments, you can learn to accept the fact that no one is perfect and being a human being and living in today’s society, we all run the risk of developing some type of health condition.
At some point you will have to pick yourself up and try to accept your condition, and then look at where you may have slipped off the path. You can then make the necessary changes in your life to help place yourself back on the path to recovery and greater health and happiness. Open your heart to completely accepting your condition. This will allow you the opportunity to embrace your healing completely. If you remain in a state of self-denial and avoidance, it will be difficult to permanently heal your cancer. Full healing takes place when you accept responsibility for past actions, reactions and your own disease.
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