Can Cancer Cause PTSD?

[becvan]

ohhh that just explained something for me!

I used to try and try to quit smoking (before I accepted my ptsd and the last diagnosis) and would just beat the crap out of myself for being unable to do it. I would just be a nut case without them. My running joke is that I smoke to reduce homicidal tendencies. I get so bad that I have also had others buy me smokes and beg me to start again! I could never understand why it was so much worse for me than others who attempted to quit. Once I made it all the way to two months.. I was just as nuts at two months as I was at one day. I knew it was my mind.. but I never put the PTSD into the equation..

Thanks Anthony.. that gives me some hope that once I heal I may be able to give it another shot...

bec

 

[batgirl]

Well it's been 8 months since I posted this thread, and I can't believe how naive I was back then, to think cancer couldn't cause PTSD. All I need do is think of all the treatments, surgeries, IVs and so on I've had in the last 8 months.. too many to count. And seeing other people with cancer break down and lose it over and over again... well, what can I say? I was wrong.

 

[Deleted member 487]

I think Anthony is right- it does fit the criteria. I think some of us have difficulty understanding the role cancer may have because we havn't been there. To me it's the flip side of the coin- others do not understand the role PTSD has in our lives or what causes it because they have not been there themselves.

 

[batgirl]

Well I can understand both sides of the coin now I guess... cancer and PTSD. Lucky me, woohoo...