Cancer is the life of modern human civilization lingering hint of the shadow, not only to the patient’s physical suffering, but also to the patients and their families bring enormous psychological pressure and financial burden, and thus triggered profound social problems .
From Shanghai Cancer Rehabilitation Club and the Taiwan Association for Cancer Comfort jointly organized by the “natural medicine and cancer rehabilitation,” the seminar, experts pointed out that cancer patients have four kinds of common psychological problems, and how to debug these psychological problems, to enhance the patient’s sense of security and confidence in the rehabilitation of great significance.
■ disorder role of a person won, forcing him from a normal social roles into the role of patients, were forced to stop work as peacetime, we can not take care of their families, but need relatives to take care of themselves. In clinical practice, many patients are unwilling to accept such a role, and assume the role of their conflict. The cause of the sense of responsibility and the love of family, the fear of disease, so that patients fear and anxiety.
■ degradation and diseases rely on for the fear, patients have a behavioral degradation. His family members should be allowed to do so, are excessively dependent on their families, the hospital environment can not adapt quickly, emotion rather fragile, will decline. Dependence is a negative emotional feelings, would reduce the patient’s own immune function, lack of confidence and resist disease capacity, to the detriment of the disease rehabilitation.
■ anxiety anxiety is the natural response of fear, the majority of patients experience in the disease process. Fear not timely and effective disarmament, will be unable to exercise restraint for the development of anxiety, such as palpitations sweating, insomnia, headache, vertigo, patients tend to act out of control, easily agitated, lack of patience, lost his temper, self-reproach and condemnation of others. The degree of anxiety and personal psychological quality, level of education, life experience and the ability to cope with.
■ depression This refers depressed, pessimistic mood, decreased self-evaluation, self-feeling bad, the lack of interest in daily life, negative the test. Depression can lead to decreased appetite, sleep disorders, depression and the intensity of reaction personal psychological quality and sensitivity of the reaction outside things in the outside world is not sensitive individual reaction easily depression. The heavy burden on the family, the care of their families are not long, the lack of a good social interpersonal relations, negative emotions are not timely venting can also add to the degree of depression.