Post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD is an anxiety disorder, experiencing a frightening or life-threatening situation may cause PTSD. It is associated with traumatic events such as war, physical attacks, natural disasters and accidents.
PTSD can affect people with a history of cancer, those undergoing the treatment, pain from the cancer and potential for the cancer to reoccur. Common symptoms of PTSD are:
nightmares, bad memories, hopelessness and shame.
Cancer patients are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder PTSD after the trauma of treatment. Cancer treatment can cause mental illness, the shock of the diagnosis and the fear of a recurrence can cause mental illness.
Mental fog often experienced by breast cancer patients after chemotherapy might be due to post-traumatic stress than the drugs and the process of treatment. It may cause nightmares, flashbacks, numbness, self-destructive behaviour, feelings of guilt and hopelessness.
The shock and trauma of being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease and receiving treatment that can be both physically and mentally gruelling are the major cause of PTSD.
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