Cancer, one of today's leading health problems, is perceived as a chronic disease that involves helplessness and uncertainty, evokes death in pain and suffering, and arouses guilt and anxiety.
Once a person is diagnosed with cancer, the patient's The way of sharing is very important. Generally, from the moment they learn the diagnosis, patients tend to deny their illness and develop resistance because they cannot cope with the truth and do not want to accept it. What is important at this point is for the doctor to clearly explain the patient's illness and treatment process, the stages he will experience and the medical interventions to be performed, and wait for the person to accept the disease. Depending on the patient's feelings about his illness and why he is experiencing this situation, he may show his anger directly to the people around him. This situation arises from the anger, helplessness, death and fears of not being able to cope.
With the start and progress of treatment. However, with the limiting effects of cancer, the patient may begin to experience a sense of material and spiritual loss and mourning, and may also fall into a feeling of hopelessness and helplessness and develop a feeling of being a burden to others. The uncertainty of the person's situation whether he/she will be able to cope with the disease he/she is experiencing causes the person to become psychologically tired.
During the treatment period, the side effects of the surgery, chemotherapy and medications used by the patient can make the person despair about the treatment and about the disease. It can lead to unrealistic ideas. The family and close circle of cancer patients have a great responsibility at this point.
*Patients should express that their thoughts about what they cannot do with their disease, especially themselves, can be achieved by anyone experiencing this situation, that they believe in it, and that they are by their side under all circumstances. They must make the patient feel and express it.
*They must not look at the patient with pity, they must not hide anything from the patient, they must share every detail about the disease with the patient. Attitudes and behaviors towards the patient compared to before the disease Care should be taken to ensure that it is not artificial.
*The patient should be encouraged to express every emotion he or she experiences, because in this process, the patient tends to hide himself and his emotions and live within them.
*To remove the disease from the center of his life as much as possible and to remove the patient from the center of his life as much as possible. Be careful to bring him together with people who can make him happy and who will be good for him, this may be people who have survived cancer and the groups he has formed.
*Take care not to constantly talk about the disease in the environment where the patient lives. Demonstrate an attitude and behavior that will support the person's hope and positive thinking and provide help.
*Encourage the patient by directing him to activities that will benefit him.
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