Coming to terms with Terminal Illness

It is significant to appreciate and accept these arrays of emotions and consequent reactions. It helps the sick, the family and the folks around to manage them and plan for the inevitable.

Jolt and Cynicism

The news about the imminent death will jolt anyone and may receive it with disbelief and shock. It will be a frightening experience to hear it and agree to it. Cynicism may prevail for a longer period before it is accepted by the individual and others around.

Negation and Rebuff

The fact about the terminal illness will not be accepted by the one who is sick and by those around. Normally they will try to rebuff it with a conviction that they actually don’t have it. In one way, it helps them to understand the reality slowly and get ready to face it. Some of them will never accept the truth of their having terminal illness till they die.

Fury and Gloom

Announcement of the analysis and the illness will make one fury and they may not hesitate to vent the ire at those who are close to him and to the doctor. They will feel gloominess when they think about their healthy past and the blissful times. The murkiness of the upcoming days will make them lose their cool to vent it out. The situation will be worse in the case of young married with kids with prime years ahead of them. Sometimes who are close to them or care them may as well undergo the same feeling. At times they may even feel the hapless blame or sense of relief that they don’t suffer it.

Panic and Pain

Diagnosed terminal illness and the imminent death will make anyone panic. If they are married and live with their family and kids they will have worries about the bleak future of the dependants. Entire family will feel panic and pain and need someone to comfort them. Mostly those who live with their family slowly will understand the reality and may start making the preparations for the eventual day. Some may remain defiant till their end.

Self-pity

Knowing more about the illness will make one go off the balance and start feeling remorse. The very idea of leaving the kith and kin and all the loved ones around them will strike them hard. As the days progress, when they become more ill, they will be increasingly dependent on someone all the time even for a normal errand. At one stage, they will feel dejected and start feeling self-pity for their dependence on others and start silently wishing for their death.

Isolation

Diseases like cancer, if gets detected at an advanced stage, may make the life of the individual miserable. In spite of the propagation and awareness created about cancer as not contagious, people still neglect those who suffer from them. When they really need the moral and physical support they only feel the isolation from their own family and suffer more.



Immobility

Most of the people who suffer from terminal illness may have to stop doing some of their regular activities or the illness will stop them. They may be stopped from going to work which they were doing all the years, they may not be able to drive their car, read a book they always like, or go for a brisk morning walk. Ultimately they may have to confine to bed all the time. The feeling of missing all their activities and not seeing the world outside will upset them emotionally.

Control over Possessions

Those in the helm of affairs of their own business conglomerate will be more emotionally attached to it. When their terminal illness stops their active participation in all crucial decisions they will start feeling guilty about it. They will feel a sense of relief if the business progresses in their absence but negative reports will bring in negative feelings and make them sicker.





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