Approaches for Cancer Patients
Cancer is a multisystem illness, involving all levels of the organism, from the physical cellular to the mental psychological. While we baffle at the variety of its manifestations there is a growing awareness of its complex psychological dimensions.
Many people get concerned about the physical and intense painful and continuous exertion on the body.
Pain from the disease itself, from its treatments, and from the deep psychological and social changes it induces is a worry. There is an expanding appreciation for the varied needs of patient support Openness, Understanding and for the sensitivity with which issues especially of death and dying needs to be approached.
Hypnosis can be used at several levels of care.
First, it is useful as a means of dealing with the symptoms of the disease itself.
Pain , Fatigue, Irritability, Insomnia, and conditions of general bodily weakness or discomfort.
Secondly, hypnosis is useful in the management of the side effects of treatments.
This is important because side effects of chemotherapy and radiation are often so uncomfortable that they may cause the patient to drop out of therapy.
Thirdly, cancer patients are faced with major psychological adjustments.
Many view their diagnosis as a death sentence and are forced to grapple with profound issues of their existence.
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