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[quote=Anonymous]Giving it time was the biggest thing that helped with my cancer diagnosis. I was in a fog of devastation and stunned panic for a couple of weeks and couldn't focus on anything else. But my brain was not able to sustain that level of emotional turmoil and the panic gradually started to numb a bit. It also got better as I met with my medical team, got the full staging, and heard the plan. Then it became a set of steps to check off and power through. It will get better, OP, and you won't feel like this forever. Just knowing that from other support groups helped me, even though it didn't change the information or the diagnosis--knowing that I would be able to sleep and eat and think about other things again at some point. The phase between getting the bad news and having the plan is the absolute worst. Your brain doesn't know what to latch onto or how to organize anything until that information is there. It does get better.[/quote]
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