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AFTER CANCER: DEALING WITH THE FUTURE
What If I Have Trouble Thinking about My Future or Picturing Good Things in My Future?
Cancer made your future seem less certain. Soon after treatment is completed, you may feel that you are safe only for a day, a week, a month, or a few months.
Picturing the future may elicit enormous anxiety, anger, or sadness because you fear that you may not get to experience it. You can experience anticipatory grief when picturing the future because projecting the future is a setup for allowing a glimpse of all possible future outcomes, including the fearsome one of illness and death. This occurs even if your prognosis is good and you are picturing happy events, such as a graduation, marriage, or the birth of a child.
What If I Have Trouble Planning for the Future?
Planning for the future means having confidence that the plans will come to fruition. You lost a lot when you got cancer. You feel vulnerable. You want to protect yourself from avoidable loss and pain. If, on any level, you are insecure about your future you will feel anxious when you start to make plans, because you do not want to lose any more.
Sometimes a component of magical thinking makes it difficult tor you to make plans. You may feel that if you make plans you are setting yourself up for a problem that will sabotage the plans. “If I don’t make plans, there won’t be any plans to get ruined. If there are no plans to ruin, I won’t get cancer.”
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