Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Survivors

[karen z]

I clinical psychologist I saw (who is very good and also not prone to labeling) suggested that symptoms I have experienced (related to my cancer diagnosis, subsequent treatment, and feelings/anxieties or panic attacks now) seemed to be PTSD. There are different types of trauma one can experience in life (and individuals relate to highly stressful events in very different ways). I think that reliving some of the trauma involved with cancer is likely more common that we might first think.