Breast cancer

I've recently had a lumpectomy, just going to start radiotherapy next week.  Everything looks OK. Why am I so tired and depressed, not like I used to be at all 

  • Because cancer gives us trauma. I'm the same, can't find much motivation these days. It's a terrible thing we've been through, the fear we feel, the not knowing. Wondering if we are going to die, has it spread, will our lives be shortened. Then it's how people around us have acted, have we been let down, not supported. Do we feel we have to put a brave face on it all so others don't feel so upset. Months of our lives taken up with appointments and treatments, the guilt that we've walked away relatively unscathed where as others have had to go through chemo. Then the worry of recurrence or secondary. Give yourself some time, you need to mend physically and more importantly, mentally. X