Majority of breast cancer patients develop symptoms of PTSD

[sarah]

Stephanie like you I had a hard time planning things too far out but now I'm over that! It takes time. However I strongly dislike comparing our stress to a soldier's. Ours generally softens with time and ours is less complicated. I certainly could never imagine going through what a soldier goes through. Obviously we are both facing death and fighting our disease takes strength and courage but many of us can live a good life and in many cases even appreciate life with more joy and gratefulness. Perhaps ours should be called PSSD, post shock stress disease. Please lets not compare ourselves to soldiers even though we may consider ourselves in a battle. I think it is important to recognize the great stress that happens with a cancer diagnosis and finding ways to help that.