Dr. Wendy Harpham is a doctor of internal medicine, cancer survivor, and award-winning and best-selling author of books about cancer: Healthy Survivorship, recovery and late effects, and raising children when a parent has cancer. She is also a public speaker, patient advocate, and mother of three.
If you are having trouble letting go of guilt and regret about past action (or inaction) that may have contributed to your current medical condition, consider this:
Feelings of guilt can hamper Healthy Survivorship by interfering with your ability to get good care and/or live as fully as possible. But if your past actions may have -- or surely did -- play a role in your current ill health, what do you do about the guilt?