PTSD?

4me

hello I’m new here today and the reason for me joining was wanting to know how people have dealt with their PTSD when it comes to your scans and bloodwork coming back normal for the last year and a half after stage three colon cancer six months of chemo every time I get a bump or don’t feel right I have my mind just goes so negative. I’m trying to figure out how to navigate around this.

beaumontdave

Hi, and welcome. I decided to read on philosophy and study Stoicism to help control the anxieties and emotional ups and downs. Some use faith, but I was done with that path. I learned to live in the present and block those pointless thoughts and fears. I definitely had some degree of PTSD, especially with my two resections [click my group name to read] and my wife's concurrent 'losing' battle with a GBM tumor. It wasn't easy, but time [13+ years from last surgery, almost 10 from her passing], and some mental distance have me quite at peace, though I can conjure it all up again in the span of a memory's dwelling. Use this battle to strengthen your coping skills and perspective on life, as most of us are likely to need those abilities even in the luckiest future, being the mortal, delicate, aging creatures we are. Best of luck to you…………………..Dave