Thinking happy thoughts is not the way to cope with the stress of having cancer.
David Spiegel
My patients joke with me. They ask me, 'Doctor, am I living longer yet?' I say, 'I don't know, but you're living better.' The goal in our groups is not to pretend you're going to make your cancer go away but to live well in the face of cancer.
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If no one wants to talk to you about the fact that you're dying, you feel very isolated,.. That's one of the powers of a group.
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My patients call that the prison of positive thinking. There is no truth at all to the idea that if you get sad, angry or frightened about cancer that you're giving in to it and allowing the cancer to grow.
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If you get breast cancer it is because you're biologically vulnerable.
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