Hi all
You will remember that way back I highlighted a document on the CCT website titled “After Treatment Finishes Then What?”.
I have discovered another good article by Dr Harvey via the National Conference of Cancer Self Help Groups; it is called The Perils and Pitfalls of Positive Thinking and is right up my street. JaneRA and a few others will warm to it thinking of “the tyranny of cheerfulness”.
Anyway, it is well worth a read.
Best wishes
D
I have googled the heading but can’t find it
Hi roadrunner
Suggest you go to the website nationalcancer.org/about.php as that’s where I excavated it. Failing that then PM me.
D
Dahlia: I can’t find it on that link either. Any suggestions??
Sounds like a good one.
Jane
could you PM me the link. sounds like an interesting article and it’s evading me. Tyranny of cheerfulness, brilliant.
When my neuts crashed on my last chemo round a friend (who’s wife had BC a decade ago is now good fortunately) said to me… stay positive.
I said it had b***er all to do with being positive, more the FEC running through my system 
So would love to read 'cause while I am a so called positive person it’s not supposed to be some kind of a sentence is it!
I sentence you to 5 years of positive thinking…
Exhausting if you ask me.
I have his email address if people are having difficulty accessing it and could ask him if he’s able to provide us with the correct link?
I’ve tried various ways of googling it and also through the CCT link without any success.
I also have a problem locating this article. I was talking with a friend the other day in a cafe about bc and a woman sat at the next table who I didn’t even know said to me’You have to think positively !!!@ Grrrr.
I’m getting confused now cause Dahlia has e-mailed me a copy of an entirely different article by Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson which I’ve already read. This one is interesting but quite a hard read: called Thinking differently about thinking positive: a discursive approach to cancer patients’ talk.
But if anyone does find an article by Peter Harvey on this them would love a link!
Jane
Hi all
It’s beginning to look like I printed it directly and didn’t download a copy - argh. The hardcopy is sitting in front of me, how frustrating.
Sorry about this - I am trying to get a softcopy and will let you know when I have managed to do this.
As Jane says, I emailed her an article which is NOT the Peter Harvey one but one I paid nearly £20 to download!!!
I’m on the case …
D
I have found it on my hard drive …
Any there was much rejoicing!!
Jane, it is on its way to you.
Thank you very much for the article, it made me feel better about feeling sad!
Can’t find it !!! …help
karen x
Hi ladies
The website is the Cancer Counselling Trust and the article by Clare Crombie is also very good. The other article by Peter Harvey about end of treatment is excellent. Hope this helps.
Dawnflower
Thanks Dahlia for sending me the article. And so sorry you spent £20 by mistake. I managed to get that article free a while back.
I thought the Peter Harvey one OK but nowhere near as good as After Treatment has finished.
I agree with dawnflower that the Clare Crombie’s article is excellent. Particularly refreshing on the ways in which the possibility of dying from cancer is kind of shoved under the carpet in the west. (my metaphor, not hers.)
Jane
Hi everyone,
I just googled ‘Dr Harvey after treatment finishes’ and it came up.It’s an old article from 2005 which I’ve read before.
Alli x
This article is brilliant! Thanks for bringing it up. Keep doing so. I wonder if it could be made available as pdf on this website? That would be so helpful to everyone.
I recommend we all read it.Although I’m only a third of my way through my current treatment,I have found this article SO helpful, in terms of looking ahead to the way I might feel and what I’ve already planned to do in terms of getting back to work, having a holiday,etc. It’s made me realise these things may not be as easy to do straightaway, as I had thought, but that I should expect I will need time to recover and build up strength physically and emotionally.It’s great to have “permission” to do so from someone with experience and wisdom.
I might print it out and give it to my consultant! And my family,come to think of it. I feel not enough ( any? ) attention is given to the stress the whole diagnosis/treatment puts on patients. Has anything concrete been put into place as a result of this article, to help patients after treatment has finished? Does anyone know?
But thanks to everyone who runs this site and the counselling services. You’re doing a fantastic job! It makes a difference, because the clinical staff often don’t have the time, and we have so many worries and questions as we go through treatment. You feel you are being a nuisance. Well, I do anyway!
Ann
Hi all
I have mailed the National Conference of Cancer Self Help Groups to see if they will send a link to the article that could be shared - they’re taking a while to reply!
I found it on their website only a couple of weeks ago although it dates back to 1999; I don’t know why it was removed but am hoping they respond soon and I can post a link to you all.
Jane’s right that it is not as good as his later article but I still think it’s well worth a read.
Will now search for the article by Ms Crombie.
Ann - I had no hesitation in printing “After Treatment Has Finished - Then What?” and handing it to those caring for me; it was bang on the money in my opinion and I could have written it myself!
D
Hi Dahlia - just found this thread and would also like the reference when you manage to source it, and shall also seek out Ms Crombie’s article - thanks
s
Hi all - just found the article Dahlia was talking about on the CCT website under the link to Resources - clients. Haven’t read that yet but read the Crombie one and it was quite good.
cancercounselling.org.uk/northsouth/extra4.nsf/WebResClient?OpenView&ExpandAll&Count=500
Here is the article I intended people to read. There are other articles on the same CCT site that will be useful and of interest to you all.
Best wishes
D