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mental health
Beyond Anxiety and Depression: A New Framework for Mental Health in Cancer Care
Emerging research suggests that understanding psychological wellbeing in people affected by cancer requires looking beyond traditional diagnostic categories. A cancer diagnosis is far more than a medical event. It can disrupt every aspect of a person's life, reshaping relationships, work,…
Lived Experience of People Affected by Cancer
Too Much Hope is a False Hope K. still remembers the moment she heard the diagnosis. The room felt suddenly smaller, the air heavier, and time strangely suspended. “You wake up in a void, alone and scared,” she says. “But…
“I Live for Two”: Isabel’s Daydreaming World Between Grief and Light
When Isabel Deprince, a formerly successful model, describes the moments she feels most like herself, she doesn’t mention spotlights or runways. She talks about being alone in her studio, sleeves rolled up, paint drying on her hands. Painting, she says,…
Hello again! Beautiful, feminine, sexy post-mastectomy me!
It all started with a high school friendship. Anna Szołucha, a photographer who specialises in noir-style black-and-white female nudes, read a post by her high school friend Agnieszka Ford on social media. Agnieszka wrote that she was in a medical…