Before I was told I have cancer, I (M-56) was still planning and working on advancing my career. In fact, I enjoyed adding skills to my "toolbox" that I could use in future promotion considerations.
But since I've been told I have cancer, granted we just had the tumor removed and I now have to schedule a follow-up surgery to confirm whether we got all of it or if it's spread, I can't think of any kind of future.
It's weird. It's almost as if subconsciously I've already convinced myself that this is it. I would love to go back to college and take some new courses but then there's a big chunk of my brain right now over-riding that, saying "Why? What's the point?".
I'm already looking into some supportive therapy, which now I really think would be a good thing, but has anyone else ever dealt with this almost subconscious defeatist attitude? And how did you get rid of it?
Pull a stocking cap over my head and say sorry I'm late.
You arrive late to work and find your coworkers bound and the place being ransacked by armed intruders. How do you react?
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