Writing on the psychology of life after cancer
A weekly piece on what actually happens after treatment ends, written by a senior clinical psychologist working in psycho-oncology. Free to read here. The conversation about each one happens inside the community.
Four things this keeps coming back to
Most of what happens after treatment sits under one of these. Each piece links to the others in its group.
Fear and recurrence
Scan anxiety, monitoring, the checking, the Googling, and why reassurance never holds for long.
Identity and adjustment
Feeling changed, feeling flat, not fitting the person you were, and everyone else deciding this is over.
The body after treatment
Fatigue, cognitive fog, physical recovery, and learning to interpret a body you no longer entirely trust.
Other people
Family, work, friendships that faded, and the specific exhaustion of explaining yourself to people who mean well.
Everything, most recent first
This part of the site is new. A new piece goes up each week, so it fills out from here.
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