Depression and Cancer
The people who receive a diagnosis from cancer, pass for some levels of estresse and emotional
anguish. The fear of the death, the physical interruption of future, changes and psychic plans, the changes of the social paper and the style of life, as well as the financial and legal concerns is important subjects for any person with cancer. However, nor all the people with cancer diagnosis suffer a serious
depression.
Many ideas preconceived and false on the cancer exist and on as the patients with cancer live . For example, the idea from that all the people with cancer suffer, obligatorily, of depression. Or still, the idea of that the depression is normal in the people with cancer, that in it exists
treatment to help with the depression of the person with cancer, or that all the patients with cancer suffer muitíssimo and have a very painful death.
The sadness and the regret are normal reactions to the crises that if face to if knowing with cancer, and all patients suffer at a moment or another one to them. Not obstante, being the common sadness in these patients, it will be very important to differentiate between the levels -; normal ; of sadness and the depression.
One of the parts most important in the care of patients with cancer is, accurately, to know to recognize when they need treatment for the depression. Some people have more problems that others to accept the diagnosis of cancer and the serious depression, that is not simply to be sad or discouraged, finish acometendo 25% of these cases.
But, it must be clearly that, basically, all the patients with cancer feel sadness and regret of periodic form during some phase of its illness, either in the diagnosis, during treatment e; or after it. Initially, when if it communicates the patient who elle has cancer, the first emotional reaction is of incredulity, rejection or desperation.
In this A stage the person can have sleeplessness problems, lose the appetite, feel itself overwhelming and be worried about the future. These symptoms can diminish as the person go if accustoming with the diagnosis.
One of the important signals of that the person has acceptance of its illness better, is the maintenance of its capacity to continue participating of the daily activities and its ability to continue fulfilling with its social paper, of spouse, father; mother, employee, etc, incorporating the sessions of treatment in its project of daily life.
The people who delay very in accepting the diagnosis and that they lose the interest in its daily activities can be suffering from depression and, exactly being light this depression, trying a great bother.
An important concern muitíssima is in relation to the patients who in demonstrate obvious and typical symptoms to it of depression. These will have a series of pathological emotional manifestations extremely not only molest, as well as, capable to intervene negative with the evolution of the treatment. These patients with atypical depression also can benefit themselves very of the treatment.
As much the individuals as the families who if face to a cancer diagnosis had tried diverse levels of estresse and emotional disturbance. The Depression appears as a comórbida illness, approximately 25% of all patients with cancer - Henriksson 1995. The fear of the death, alteration of the life plans, changes in the corporal image, I shake in autoestima, changes in the social situation and in the life style, as well as economic and occupational concerns they are important subjects in the life of any person with cancer and, still thus, nor all the ones that are diagnosised with cancer try Depression Serious, as if it could think.
Many myths exist on the cancer and in the way as the people face it. Some of these myths would be, for example: all the people with cancer are depressed, the Depression in a person with cancer are normal, the treatments antidepressants do not help the Depression in the cancer.
Myths on theCancer
All the people with cancer are depressed
Depression in a person with cancer is normal
Treatments do not help the Depression in the cancer
All with Cancer had suffered a painful death
Being the sadness a common reaction which all the people with cancer have that to face e, being also the sufficiently common Depression in these patients, is important to distinguish between the normal degrees from this sadness and the frank Depressive Upheavals.
1 - to remain itself active in the daily tasks;
2 - to reduce to the minimum the impact of the illness in the daily papers, as of father, husband, used etc., e;
3 - to control the normal emotions to the illness
On the other hand, they also exist indicating suggestive of the necessity of if effecting the possible precocious intervention:
Indications of the necessity of treatment for Depression
1. Personal antecedents of Depression;
2. Precarious system of social endorsement, such as: to be single, to have few friends, environment of solitary work;
3. Persistent beliefs and irrationals or negation regarding the diagnosis -; some aidéticos if refuse to believe its illness;
4. More serious prognostic of the type and estadiamento of the cancer;
5. Bigger consequent organic disfunção to the cancer.
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Carlos Iafelice Júnior