Unmotivated Depression
Your feelings about breast cancer, your treatment, and the effort it will take to get better can impact how well you stay on track with treatment. If you experience depression, as some people with breast cancer do, you may feel like you don’t have the energy to keep up with your treatment plan. Or you may at times feel overwhelmed by or even angry about the constant rounds of appointments and medications. This can happen for a number of reasons:
- It‘s not easy to feel independent and active...
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