A Disease

A relative has cancer: how to support?

Learning that someone you love is suffering from cancer causes a shock. How to live with the disease each other, help to overcome, even with him in his moments of discouragement? Marie-Armelle Roquand, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Regional Center for the Fight against Cancer Paul Papin Angers, explains how to cross together this event.
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When someone you love is affected by the disease, it is a real shock ...

The diagnosis of cancer, for one of his own, shaking the family unit and also affects close friends. But for the relatives, the race is lived at a different level. The anxiety reached to feel his body "compelled" to a path of thought where the idea of death (wrongly or rightly) find their way, will be felt by the surrounding "healthy". But he can defend himself more forcefully.

Disease refers to the other questions about itself. Everyone is asking "if this cancer on myself?" "Why is this one of mine who is affected?" It is a time disorder, in which the emotions of each other violently arise, and are not necessarily identical. They depend on the experience of each of his personal history with the disease, its relationship with the patient.