Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Cancer’s mental health impact: experiences of young adults
In this episode, Tatum welcomes Clare from Shine to review some of the experiences that were shared at Shine's annual conference. They hear from Rime, who lives with bipolar disorder and experienced a severe mental health emergency after her diagnosis; Ben who has experienced anxiety and used alcohol to cope; and from Ciaran who was diagnosed with testicular cancer and then experienced suicidal thoughts.
Warning: Please be aware that this episode contains descriptions of mental illness, suicide and alcohol abuse.
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Hi Katie thanks so much for listening and your comments. We are so sorry about everything you’re going through. I hope listening helped you to realise you aren’t alone. Please make sure to reach out for support. Our FB group is always there or you can call the Macmillan helpline on 0808 808 0000
Friday Feb 03, 2023
So relieved I’m not the only one suffering after breast cancer and the lack of support from some friends and family e.g split with my husband friends disappeared I was no longer included in any social gatherings so now after 5 years I’ve been diagnosed with cognitive impairment due to sepsis during chemo and haven’t been able to leave the house and I couldn’t get any help I’ve never felt so isolated and alone apart from my son. My son was my saviour (without his knowledge) because life was so bad the cognitive damage is severe and affects my speech (slurred) memory balance concentration and handwriting so I became too embarrassed to leave the house. It was so bad I almost wanted the cancer to come back and kill me and if I didn’t have my son to live for I would have put an end to my own life years ago. I have no life since cancer treatment but luckily thanks to an attentive caring GP has arranged assessments and CBT and other things in order to improve my quality of life so I’m trying to be positive of obtaining even some quality of life worth living for, for myself not just solely living for my son as I could never do anything to myself but the only reason I wouldn’t is because I would never do anything to hurt my son and I’ve felt this low now for over 3 years I can’t see it ever getting better
Monday Jan 30, 2023
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