https://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/home/cancer-types/prostate-cancer/depression-anxiety-rates-high-with-adt-for-prostate-cancer/

[depotdoug]

I read this Nurse Oncology article this AM.

Still trying to comprehend to implications of article to my own Anxiety and worry. It sure sounds true for me.

[Darryl Partner]

We have a group for that. healthunlocked.com/anxietys...

[depotdoug in reply to Darryl]

I had absolutely no idea. That is great news, Darryl. Going there right now. My Anxiety, high energy, is not just from adv Pca w/mets, cardio issues, AFIB, and multitude of other health issues as do many of us.

[Magnus1964]

I guess I am one of the lucky ones.

[depotdoug in reply to Magnus1964]

Thank goodness to you guys that thrive without anxiety.

[SteveTheJ]

This is my story and my opinion.

Color me skeptical. A high school friend with mesothelioma, who had very toxic chemo and two major surgeries, each of which almost killed him, says he now has PTSD. He fears every test, can't stop thinking about it, etc... Last time I spoke with him he had not yet talked with anyone about it but he's expecting to.

If you've been through the same kind of ordeal, I'd expect you to have some anxiety and depression but otherwise, I'm not sure where it's coming from. Did you expect to live forever? Who told you that?

I have some anxiety before every blood test and every scan but it's easy to deal with. My end-of-life planning is done (last will, etc) but mostly I feel like I have to deal with cancer day to day. Thinking about anything long-term makes no sense. As long as I have some things to look forward to, I'm OK.

If you're experiencing anxiety and depression, you can and should get treatment. It's easily and readily available from an internal medicine doctor; you don't have to ask your oncologist. I take an anti-depression and anti-anxiety medication, both of which I started several years before the cancer started. I think they help "just enough"; I don't feel medicated but I do feel like it's a little easier to deal with life.

[CAMPSOUPS in reply to SteveTheJ]

As I read I was wondering what's up with this guy with no anxiety.Then I read your last paragraph.

BTW do you have wife, children, close family. In regard to having a couple expiration dates put on my head it is the thought of my loved ones despair that causes most of my anxiety.

[SteveTheJ]

Everyone has close family but I have no thought of them. How they feel is up to them. My goal is to live while I can, to visit with people I care about that I haven't seen in a while, and to let the situation play out.

I want information, the more the better, that's what keeps me on an even keel. This group is really good for that.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to think or how to feel. I just always squint at messages in this forum where people are talking about their anxiety; makes me wonder why.

[London441]

Often people are talking about their anxiety (as the original poster did) to get empathy and suggestions, one of which was supplied by the moderator.

I count my blessings (including the treatments I had) maintain relationships with my family and friends, strive to be in top physical condition, invest in my passions and stay in the present as much as possible. But there are times when talking about my anxiety with others (including on this forum) who are going through pca works best.

You like information, that’s great. Meanwhile for many of us, peer to peer support is without parallel. You wonder why people talk about their anxiety? Personally, I wonder why they don’t.😀

[depotdoug in reply to London441]

Yes, agree peer to peer support is phenomenal. I too wonder why people, myself included until my 1st PCa palliative oncology meeting 03/10/2022 which went totally irrational.Yeh, I've talked openly with many or some of my church family close friends since 1st palliative mtg. Plus some of exercising buddies and fitness staff.

It does a whale of good to express anxiety fumes and concerns.

Thanks for the positive response London441.

[London441 in reply to depotdoug]

You’re welcome. Yeah I like to exchange as much of a full range of feelings as possible. A lot of us older guys come from a background of man up, don’t show any weakness etc. I’m glad I didn’t but I get it for sure.

I think Dr Gonzo had some good points there -it was just the ‘wondering why’ people talk about their anxiety on here. Also the comment that ‘everyone has close family’. LOL! Not sure he could have even intended to mean that literally. Clarify if you wish Mr Gonzo! Everyone has family, it’s about as far as I’m willing to go on that one.

[depotdoug in reply to London441]

Yeh family. Sister passed on April 2016.Adv breast cancer and lots of long term drug use, was 68. Not much inter relationship with my brother either.

Friends at church and exercise buddies are my source of releasing my anxiety frustrations. My wife understands, I think my anxiety but not my energy with the prednisone and abiraterone and BP med SE’s.

But thanks for understanding us guys that too have feelings and complicated health issues combined.