Medical Trauma
Navigating Triggers: 6 Tips To Prepare Yourself to See a New Doctor
I circled the date on my calendar in red and gulped. I really didn’t want to do this but I’d canceled once already and knew I needed to make this appointment. Again. Ugh. I closed my eyes as my constant companion for the past 30 years of my life, nausea, barreled into my consciousness. The…
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Cancer, an international interdisciplinary journal of the American Cancer Society, recently published a study of South-East Asian patients that demonstrates that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may become persistent or even worsen in cancer patients up to four years after their diagnosis. “Our data underscore the risk of developing persistent PTSD even years after cancer diagnosis and treatment,”…
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