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How do you fight anxiety from rising PSA?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 11 6:11am | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
For me, anxiety is a feeling of things threatening from outside of myself. (True for anything, but it goes double for PCa.) I try to bring it "inside", and gain a measure of control, by putting it on a sort of psychic workbench where I can work on it and have some impact. It involves examining what I know objectively, getting answers for what I don't know, building defenses (exercise is big here), gathering support from friends and loved ones. It takes some effort to keep steering myself back to this state of mind, but it works. You rose up and asked the question - a big, hopeful first step. Good luck!
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@guybe thank you for your comment, for me when I saw the number it was like a dark cloud came over me and I thought “ I have to deal with this shit again” I felt I couldn’t get away from it, then I found this group and found someone who was going thru the same thing as me and it felt not so scary, it was like I was going into the cave of the unknown but I found someone who had entered before me and they said it’s ok going this far in,idk it’s hard to explain but I like your analogy on putting it on a workbench and examining it for what it is. It’s hard sometimes but I’m not going to let it get me down to far it’s not a good place to be, I’m still alive , I have options, I love to travel so that’s what I’m going to keep doing ,live like there’s no tomorrow because all we have is the now……wow I just gave myself a pep talk, and I think it’s working