Feeling depressed

Please Sue, don’t give up.

I’ve only just been diagnosed and am waiting for my surgery date...I’m scared but I’m really finding that Reiki is helping me. I am a trained practitioner but to receive it is wonderful. Look up Reiki on the Complimentary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and find a therapist because it will genuinely help you.

Download Insight Timer App and listen, listen, listen to loads and loads of guided meditations.

Look up The Tapping Solution which is a therapy that you can do yourself which stops anxiety amongst other things.

And if nothing else works, when you get on the rollercoaster of feelings say over and over:

’Five, four, three, two, one...STOP’

its a circuit breaker for thoughts and it works.

Please try all, some of these.... I promise something will click. Wish I could help more but you really have got this

Hi Sue,

Believe me when I say I know what it’s like and so will others on here. Everything seems to be thrown at you all at once and you just start to feel like your getting a grasp on it, when suddenly it changes course and you have readjust.  

I am slightly ahead of you regarding treatment as I had my mastectomy on the 10th December and started chemo on the 27th of Jan, but some days are definatley more of an emotional struggle than others.

One main thing to remember is that breast cancer is hormonal and will affect our emotions, not to mention the physical/ mental side of the surgery and then the poisons that are given to us in the name of chemo. When you look on it like that is it any wonder we have down days sometimes? 

Having said that we got through the surgery, we turn up for each treatment so that it can fight the cancer.  We put on a wig (well some do) and we carry on, when you think of all you have already done you must realise how strong you are! 

Take time for you and don’t beat yourself up for getting down now and then it’s the getting up again that matters.  

Stay strong 

Kathryn x 

Hi LS1524.   Sorry to be so down when you are only at the beginning of it all.   Please keep up your positivity and all the therapies you are doing.   They will all stand you in good stead for the months ahead.

I have only just started to feel like this and I think it must be down to the infection and how ill I had been feeling for about a week or so.   When people like you reply it really helps to know others care and we are not alone.   

I will look into the things you have mentioned if I feel it is all getting too much.   This morning I feel slightly more upbeat. Maybe a decent nights sleep helped and also waking up to replies to my post.

I really hope your surgery date is soon.   The waiting is almost the worst part and there seems to be so much waiting in this game!

Look after yourself and best wishes and hugs for the coming weeks/months.   Love Sue x

Hi Kathryn.   Thanks so much for replying to my post.   It is so comforting to hear from others going through all this rubbish we are enduring.   I really appreciate you mentioning that we are all going through so much that is shouldn't be a surprise when we occasionally feel low and have bad days.   I have been pretty much ok so far and it has hit me hard to feel so depressed suddenly.   I will take your advice and remember all that I have been through and be kind to myself - I thought I was but I obviously need to take better care of myself from now on.   

I hope your chemo is progressing well - how many sessions are you having?   Hopefully you are nearer to the end than the beginning.   Thanks again for your words of encouragement.   We are all in this together and together we can get through.

In the words of Charlie Mackesy:

 "This storm is making me tired," said the boy.

"Storms get tired too," said the horse, "so hold on".