小児がん患者とご家族の精神的負担 Mental Distress of Pediatric Cancer Patient and Their Family
English follows the Japanese.
小児がん患者やご家族の抱える精神的病について書かれてあります。
小児がん患者の子供達は、一緒に入院していた友達が亡くなれたりすると、自分だけ生きているという罪悪感や再発の恐怖が襲ってくるそうです。これらの不安や辛い思いからPTSDになってしまう方もいるようです。しかし、患者さんだけではなく、ご家族の方も精神的に辛い思いをされ、苦しんでいる方も多くいらっしゃいます。なぜ子供に普通の生活を送らせてあげられないのだろう、再発などでいなくなってしまうのでは？、などという不安や悲しみと闘い続けている方もいらっしゃいます。
ただ可哀想、と思うのではなく、この人は大丈夫かな？というような気持ちで関わり、辛い思いをして苦しんでいる方に気付き、お手伝いをする必要があるのではないでしょうか？
共感したら、共有を！！
This article talks about the mental issues that some pediatric cancer patients and families face. Some patients feel the sense of guilt, when their friend passes away at the hospital and she was still alive, or be seized with fear of recurrence of the cancer. From all those concerns and things they care, they sometimes become PTSD. However, it is not only patients who are in a risk of getting mental illnesses. There are a lot of parents and families who thinks that it is their fault that their child has a cancer, and ask themselves that why their child cannot have the normal life as other children does, or also they are really worried about recurrence of the cancer.
Isn't it important to ask yourselves "is this person ok?" and realise the severeness of their state of mind and help them get out of that terrible mind cycle, rather than just thinking that "I really feel bad for them". Take an action before anything gets worse.
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