2023-11-07 14:45:20
«Cancer (and its treatment) constitutes a traumatic event that affects all dimensions of a person’s life from the physical to the emotional, sexual, relational, professional and spiritual – says Anna Costantini, national councilor of the Italian Society of Psycho-Oncology -. Like any traumatic event, it gives rise, in all patients, to an understandable reactive psychological process, characterized by feelings of shock, anxiety, fear, loss, uncertainty, revision of existential priorities. In approximately half of the cases the suffering can present itself or evolve with characteristics of greater severity and persistence and exceed the person’s ability to adapt and cope with the changes that the disease entails, up to the manifestation of real psychopathological disorders with significant consequences on the life quality. In these cases it is advisable to turn to specialized psycho-oncologists to treat the psychological side of the disease with proven effective interventions.”
November 7, 2023 | 08:14
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