Coping with Guilt and Shame When You Have Cancer

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Coping with Guilt and Shame When You Have Cancer  Cancer is hard enough without adding guilt to the mix.  What are some of the ways in which people with cancer feel guilty, and what tips might help you cope with the guilt?  On another note, if you have yet to file your 2014 tax return, make sure to add up your medical deductions - you may be surprised. Best wishes until next week, Dr. Lynne Lynne Eldridge MD Lung Cancer Expert What is Survivor Guilt and How Can You Cope? One very hard thing for cancer survivors to face is the loss of others they've come to know with cancer.  Instead of asking "Why Me?" we are now asking "Why Not Me?"  What tips have helped other cope, when friends we care about with cancer don't make it?  Read more  READ NOW Share How Can You Cope with Guilt About Smoking?  If you smoked in the past and have lung cancer, you may have said the words "if only" more than once (or twice.)  What has helped other people with lung cancer cope with guilt about smoking in the past, so they can focus on treatment and live today?  Read more READ NOW Share What Tax Deductions Are Available for Cancer Patients? If this happens to be a year that you took an extension on your tax return, check out this article to see if you are missing any of these tax deductions for people with cancer.  Read more  READ NOW Share Coping with Shame  Shame, like guilt, is another emotion that can steal joy from people living with lung cancer.  Sadly, the public stigma of lung cancer has done little to help people avoid the blame and shame game.  That said, practicing self-compassion doesn't depend on the stigma, and can be done by anyone living with the disease.  Read more READ NOW Share Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Lung Cancer newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved