Have you ever wondered "why me" when diagnosed with cancer?
PUBLISHED September 05, 2018
Tamera Anderson-Hanna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Addiction Professional, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and became a Registered Yoga Teacher while coping with breast cancer in 2015. She owns Wellness, Therapy, & Yoga in Florida where she provides personal wellness services and coaching and she is a public speaker on wellness-related topics. You can connect with her at www.wellnesstherapyyoga.com.
Why me? Have you ever wondered this after being diagnosed with cancer? On my darker days and early on in my diagnosis with breast cancer, I really had to work on ways to overcome such thinking. While my concern was not only to be healthy and to be around for my children, the "why me" was an expression of shock and anger.
What helped with the "why me" stage of diagnosis was realizing that I was in the common range of women who get breast cancer, and the rate of diagnosis is 1 of 8 women who will be diagnosed during their lifetime, according to breastcancer.org. A family history can increase those chances, and unfortunately there has been a strong history of female cancers in my family.
What helped with the "why me" stage of diagnosis was realizing that I was in the common range of women who get breast cancer, and the rate of diagnosis is 1 of 8 women who will be diagnosed during their lifetime, according to breastcancer.org. A family history can increase those chances, and unfortunately there has been a strong history of female cancers in my family.
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