Adjustment of patient’s mentality after cancer recurrence

All cancer patients are full of fear of recurrence. It is often the case that the treatment goes smoothly at the beginning and the condition miraculously improves, but then suddenly recurs, so the patients have doubts and fears about the extent to which the doctor’s treatment can help them physically and psychologically. In order to eliminate patients’ fear of recurrence and overcome the psychological contradictions in the recovery process, we should first make patients realize that establishing a psychological state conducive to recovery will not be a smooth process, but an unpredictable, winding and rugged road, and we encourage patients not to put all their hopes on treatment and not to focus on doctors, but to mobilize their own energy to contain the cancer. We encourage patients not to put all their hopes on the treatment and not to focus only on the doctors, but rather to mobilize themselves and mobilize their own energy to stop the cancer from reigniting. First, you must ask for help from everyone who can help you regain your health, ask for more love and care from your family, close friends, doctors and nurses, and ask them to understand and tolerate your emotional needs and mood swings, as your strength and courage to fight against despair comes from their generous love and support. Second: Do not imagine the final outcome of the disease and never make any major decisions. If you think that the future will be as painful as the present, you are bound to give up on yourself and worsen your physical condition. Remember that fear and pain are temporary, and the resulting anguish and despair will pass. Once the difficulty is over, you will calmly think about the obstacles in front of you and ways to overcome them, and you should devote all your energy to proving that you can get through it and that you are capable of facing up to and examining the causes and implications of a relapse. Rather than seeing relapse as a failure of treatment, you should see it as a psychologically suggestive physiological message in your body. The significance of these messages may be: 1. The patient may have unintentionally and mistakenly succumbed to an emotional conflict, and the relapse reminds you of the need to resolve the conflict and to seek expert help for further treatment. 2. Except when you are very ill, you may not usually find ways to meet your emotional needs. 3. In the process of lifestyle change, the patient may be eager to win, causing psychological tension, and relapse is the body’s warning to you. 4, the patient after getting a significant improvement, complacent, abandoned the previous standard, and was wrapped up in a stressful event, people are often used to meet the needs of the moment, but it is difficult to stick to the new lifestyle, relapse is afraid that the punishment for people, right? 5, maybe the patient did not really meet their own emotional needs, still doing stupid things that are not good for you, relapse reminds you not to cheat yourself, to take their legitimate needs and health as a top priority, and take it seriously. The above list is only part of the information brought by the disease relapse, cancer specialists can help patients to figure out the full meaning of the information of relapse. However, the most important thing is that patients must actively explore their inner world and understand the meaning of these messages, as the saying goes, “It takes one to untie the bell”. In addition, it is helpful to examine the changes in your life and emotions during the period before the relapse, what happened, how you did things differently than you did in the past, and what your family and friends said about the incident and your approach; this will also allow you to re-evaluate the results of your efforts in the recovery process. So that you can adjust your beliefs and lifestyle.