Written By Tony Subia
September 2022

When falling into deep depression consider seeking professional emotional counseling. Many pancreatic cancer patients feel a great sense of loss of their health after diagnosis and forget the great enjoyments of life before being diagnosed. Depression can become a very common response to such a serious disease. It can take a great deal of time to get over coping with the many emotional changes that are taking place.

It is so important to seek medically professional counseling. For many pancreatic cancer patients depression can diminish quickly with the help of positive outlook by other patients. For others, depression can become much worse. Painful feelings are difficult to overcome and may not get better without emotional counseling.

Depression can be treated as a medical condition. Often communicating with peers who have traveled the same paths can be of immense help. But seeking professional help will usually diminish depression at a quicker pace. Try to recognize the following typical signs of falling into a deep depression.

• Feeling helpless and hopeless.
• Sadness that doesn’t seem to go away.
• Feeling life no longer has meaning.
• Constant crying spells.
• Loosing interest in things you always enjoyed.
• And worse….contemplating hurting or killing yourself.
• Professional Counseling is So Important to Extending Quality Life