Understanding and Managing our Emotions

With a breast cancer diagnosis comes a range of emotions. In the discussion summaries below,  the BRiC Collective Voice share their experience of how they understand and manage their emotional challenges. Click on the topics below to see a summary of our Collective Voice discussions... Contact us if you would like to submit and article or blog post.

• Fear of Recurrence and Progression of Disease

• Feeling Depressed

• Anxiety: The See-Saw of Fear

• ‘Let it Go’: Overthinking and How to Overcome It

• Uncertainty and the 'What if?' factor

• The Feeling of Anger

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Balancing the 'Positive' and the 'Negative'

• The Toxic Positivity Effect

• Avoidance: Repression and Suppression

• 'Don't Sweat the Small Stuff': The Other Side of Cancer

• Post-Traumatic Growth: Growing from Trauma

• Loss and Mixed Emotions

• Grief and Empathy

• Grieving the Loss of our Former Selves

• Guilt

• Loneliness

• What Does It Feel Like Being Diagnosed With Metastatic (secondary) Breast Cancer

• Why Some Emotions are Harder to Experience after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

• Feeling Abandoned
• The Experience of Joy
• Crying
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