Cancer and Depression.

 'At the lowest point recently I felt that I've lost everything.'

Cancer is an emotional rollercoaster and those emotions are not always a positive, grateful or even euphoric sense of relief at getting through it. Or, if they are, the high can be followed by a low. It is probably more common than people realise that cancer and depression go hand-in-hand, both for the patient or those close to them. 

According to Macmillan, symptoms of depression can include:

• waking up early, having difficulty sleeping, or sleeping more than usual

• smoking or drinking alcohol more than usual

• crying a lot

• having difficulty remembering things

• having a very low mood for most of the time

• being unusually irritable or impatient

• getting no pleasure out of life or activities you usually enjoy

• feeling a loss of affection or sexual desire

• finding it hard to concentrate or make decisions.

If you think you might be suffering from depression, the advice from Macmillan is to speak to your doctor or nurse as a starting point to get appropriate help.

Depression - Cancer Information - Macmillan Cancer Support

www.macmillan.org.uk

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