I didn’t have many breakthrough moments in therapy, but learning this concept was a massive step in understanding my emotions after cancer.
My psychologist explained that a lot of my feelings were linked to grief.
I was confused. Nobody I knew had died?? Was I grieving the people who didn’t survive Ewing’s sarcoma? Was this part of survivor’s guilt?
Then she told me who I was grieving; my pre-cancer self. And that made a lot of sense.
I was grieving ‘pre-cancer me’. I missed her. I missed her innocence and freedom.
I hadn’t realised this before. I’d never seen anything about grieving ‘the old you’, but it made so much sense.
All the feelings that come with grief; hopelessness, feeling lost, feeling broken, the feeling that you’d give anything to have them back… I was feeling all of these things for pre-cancer me.
This allowed me to treat myself like…
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Thank you for sharing. I relate to the post, too.
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