June is PTSD Awareness Month. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that some people develop after experiencing a frightening or life-threatening situation, including a breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment. And yes, caregivers can equally experience PTSD. If you're having feelings of anxiety or depression, or other feelings that are getting worse, affecting your daily life, it's important to ask your cancer care team for a referral to a mental health professional. Learn more about post-traumatic stress (PTS) and PTSD with breast cancer. You can also talk with others and get support in the PTSD and cancer thread.
June is also Pride Month around the world. Pride is a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and isa vibrant tribute honoring love, diversity, and acceptance. Did you know that LGBTQ+ people with breast cancer face delays in diagnosis and have a three times higher risk of recurrence than heterosexual cisgender people? All people — no matter their gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, economic status, or other health conditions — deserve the best breast cancer care and the best prognosis possible. Meet others from the LGBTQ+ community in our LGBTQ+ People With Breast Cancer forum.
In honor of pride month, we're paying tribute to our amazing community member Kate as she describes caring for her partner through her breast cancer diagnosis, then facing a role reversal.
May poll results: What's most important to your overall health?
When asked what's most important to you for your overall health, 25% said removing stressors, 25% reported exercise, 20% said social connections, while the remainder was related to a nutritious diet and sleep. Weigh in here.
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"I'm seeing life differently and relationships differently. I'm no longer trying to please everyone, or allowing toxic positivity or toxic people into my life. I'm stronger emotionally in ways I never realized I should have been and needed to be. I'll keep working through my mental healing just as I worked through my physical healing. I can cry, laugh, love — all of it. Or I can let it strip away the beautiful being I'm becoming."
DizzyLotusBottom Breastcancer.org community member
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