| 1. | Control Stress | | 2. | Regain, Maintain and Sustain HOPE | | 3. | CONTROL-Take it Back | | 4. | ANGER-Identify it, Examine it, Get rid of it | | 5. | Eliminate Myths about Cancer | | 6. | Don’t be Reclusive | | 7. | Don’t’ let your family and friends abandon you | | 8. | Seek Family Harmony | | 9. | Spend time with other Cancer patients | 1. Control Stress 2. Regain, Maintain and Sustain HOPE 3. CONTROL-Take it Back 4. ANGER-Identify it, Examine it, Get rid of it 5. Eliminate Myths about Cancer 6. Don’t be Reclusive 7. Don’t’ let your family and friends abandon you 8. Seek Family Harmony 9. Spend time with other Cancer patients 10. Join a Support Group
11. Form a partnership with your Physician
12. Use the Placebo effect consciously
13. Actively prepare for any surgery if
it becomes part of the management plan 14. Pain-don’t put up with it
15. Be real
16. Use Upbeat words about the illness
17. Don’t be too Nice
18. Expect the best
19. Make plans for the future
20. Don’t keep secrets 21. Continue to enjoy intimacy 22. Know that you are not to blame …. for the onset of your illness if your illness is not improving as you want. 23 Be careful of what you eat 24 Exercise 25. Volunteer
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