Anxiety: Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Guided Imagery
Healing With Imagery, Creativity, and Meaning
Alternative Therapy - Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, Music Therapy, and Imagery
Art, dance, music—all are examples of mind-body therapy. Although these therapies do not cure cancer, they provide an outlet for emotions and can improve mental and physical well-being.
Alternative Therapy - Massage Therapy
Short periods of massage can provide physical and emotional benefits for cancer patients. Massage can provide relief of muscle tension, low back pain, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
Alternative Therapy - Distraction
Distraction does not cure cancer, but it helps push patients’ minds away from unpleasant thoughts, procedures, and pain.
Alternative Therapy - Hypnosis
Hypnosis is not a medical treatment for cancer, but it may have an important role in managing cancer. Hypnosis has been effective in helping patients reduce pain, stress, and depression, and calm fears and anxiety.
Alternative Therapy - Yoga
Yoga means "union"—a union of the mind, body, and spirit—and uses slow movement, precise posture, meditation, and breathing exercises to reach a state of relaxation.
Alternative Therapy - Physical Exercise
Exercise is an effective activity for many people with cancer. Scientists are still learning about how physical activity helps cancer patients and what impact it has on the immune system.
Take a Vacation From Cancer
Exercise is an effective activity for many people with cancer. Scientists are still learning about how physical activity helps cancer patients and what impact it has on the immune system.
Nurturing Your Body From Within
Exercise is an effective activity for many people with cancer. Scientists are still learning about how physical activity helps cancer patients and what impact it has on the immune system.
Maintaining Quality of Life When You Have Cancer
Exercise is an effective activity for many people with cancer. Scientists are still learning about how physical activity helps cancer patients and what impact it has on the immune system.
Using Writing to Heal
Exercise is an effective activity for many people with cancer. Scientists are still learning about how physical activity helps cancer patients and what impact it has on the immune system.
Working with Your Cancer Care Team
Cancer is increasingly viewed as a long-term chronic illness, rather than an acute one.
Taking Antidepressant Medications
If you have been asked to take drugs for your feelings of depression. To take antidepressant drugs safely, you will need this safety information.
Cancer Diagnosis - The Experience of Grief
Detailed information on the experience of grief, including the symptoms of grief, the stages of grief, and discussing death
Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety
Detailed information on the experience of grief, including the symptoms of grief, the stages of grief, and discussing death
Understanding Depression
Although sadness touches all our lives, true depression is different in its intensity and persistence.
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