Coping with cancer

By Clare Peddie, Science Reporter, The Adverstiser

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/education/coping-with-cancer/story-fn3o6nna-1226408763762

I think the thing is though; somebody needs to recommend counselling to you… It’s just something that you don’t think about yourself because sometimes you… like obviously I didn’t think I needed any help. But I did. But if somebody recommended and said “Oh look, if you are feeling this way I recommend you go and see this counsellor”, I think that’s a good recommendation. And to have her card and phone number…so that if you ever felt as though you needed somebody like that, you knew where to go.

- Joy, 50’s, Breast Cancer, Eyre Peninsula

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