Your viewpoint is, in my opinion, a common mistake many people make
when someone tries to broach the subject of how
emotions/baggage/psychological factors contribute to the onset of,
and the healing from, cancer.
Those psychological/emotional factors too often get avoided precisely
for the reason you have given, and also because such factors appear
more slippery, nebulous and fearsome than does a bowl of muesli, a
bottle of selenium or a multi-colored salad.
I assure you it is not an "idiotic line of thinking," though I agree
with you that cancer and other dis-eases do not have but one cause.
Cancer does not happen solely because of poor diet, or solely because
of fungus, nor does it happen solely because of emotional trauma or
emotional baggage.
There is an excellent book, one of the very best there is, about
healing from cancer, titled "Cancer As A Turning Point," written by
one of the few psychologists worth his salt, Lawrence LeShan. The
book can be bought very cheaply at amazon.com or it can be gotten
from the library. It is beautifully written, not dry at all, yet it
makes an umistakable and hard to argue point: that addressing
possible emotional/psycholgicial factors when trying to heal from
cancer is every bit as important as addressing the physical ones.
Here is a very quick summation of the book: In the 1950's, LeShan
managed, after trying over and over again, to get himself admitted to
a large "cancer hospital," where he was permitted to meet and talk
with only the very worst, most terminal people. He found that when he
was able to get them to open up and speak with him about what their
hopes, fears and aspirations had been in life before they were
diagnosed with the cancer, and IF he was able to "restart their
creative fires," or to help them untangle emotional knots into which
they and others had tied themselves, that many of those people went
into long-term remissions, and some of them went into remission for
so long they were considered cured.
Think about that: LeShan accomplished that with people who were
receiving or had received the crudest, earliest mainstream treatment,
who were almost certainly eating terribly unhealthful hospital food,
who were very likely not exercising, who were likely not getting
sunlight or fresh air, and who were not taking any supplements or
vitamins.
For those reasons, LeShan's work showed me, beyond a shadow of any
doubt, that addressing emotional/psychological factors is crucial in
order to heal from cancer.
There is no reason at all, Marti, to attach guilt to the process of
examining what was happening emotionally/psychologically before
cancer, and what is happening presently in the life of someone with
cancer. I can liken it to, for instance, losing one's car keys: One
realizes one has misplaced them, and one searches for them until one
finds them. One can, if one so chooses, beat oneself up while
searching for the keys---call oneself an idiot, tell oneself one is
worthless, etc. But what one generally does is simply to find the
keys, and if one wants not to lose them again, one puts a hook on the
wall by the door and makes sure always to hang them on that hook
after using them.
Certainly the examination of one's psyche is not as painless as
searching for one's car keys, but it can be undertaken without
blaming oneself. It needs to be viewed as necessary detective work.
(Proponents of such work might even say doing such work is more
necessary than getting a biopsy!)The changes one makes during and
subsequent to such detective work almost invariably make the living
of life significantly more vibrant and enjoyable.
I have done a good deal of such work on myself, and I certainly
consider that work to have contributed significantly to my 18-year
remission from lymphoma. But a wonderful, added benefit of that work
has been that the second half of my life is turning out to be far
more wonderful than was the first half, when I was laboring under all
manner of emotional/psychological difficulties.
Please know that the work can be done without the negativity you
suppose will be attached to it.
I do believe the work is best done with the aid of a professional,
someone who can view things with an unprejudiced, unfearfula and
practiced eye. But know that one does NOT have to hire someone
expensive. In fact, I have found that social workers are oftentimes
better to work with than high-paid psychiatrists or psychologists
because SW's are more practical and down-to-earth than many
PhD's/MD's.
Best wishes and best of health,
Elliot
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