Can’t get my secondary diagnosis out of my mind

recently been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in the lung. At my last scan my Ongologist said she was delighted with my scan as the lump on the chest wall had gone and she wasn’t concerned about the 2 nodules on my lung. She said everything was stable.I’m assuming they are secondaries and can’t cope with it . Unfortunately, I have severe depression which I had before this. I’m scrolling the Internet which I have been told not to do. I am at my wits end trying to stop my head ruminating.

Has anyone any advice as to how I can get on with my life?

  • Hi Frozen 

    im trying to keep busy but have to admit it's awful just want to wake up from this !! And Internet is such s bad thing to look at so many different things to look up and it just gets all mixed up . Hope things get better for you xx

  • Hi,

    im new to this forum, my mother has just had a cancer diagnosis. However, I know a lot about anxiety and depression and intrusive thoughts.

    what worked for me at times of huge crisis was to practice mindfulness. Look it up on th einternet, there are loads of articles and YouTube postings. I started with focusing on what is real, right now and thinking only about the immediate moment. Then, with practice, you can develop into controlling the thoughts.

    look up catastrophic thinking or catastrophising, hopefully you will be able to relate to that type of thinking and it may help to reduce it. Good luck, I know how I felt when I was in that state, you can manage it, it just takes a bit of time. Oh, alcohol will increase intrusive thoughts in my experience. X