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Do You Have Situational Depression or Biological Depression?

2017

I'm asked all the time by people if what they are experiencing is because of their life situation or because something is wrong with their body.

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When Cancer Isn’t the Only Deadly Risk: Battling Depression Post-Treatment

I was lucky that my type of cancer responds well to hormone therapy, with no chemotherapy or radiation. Despite my excellent prognosis and low chance of recurrence, my breast cancer almost killed me.

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Marta Segal Block
2020
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Treating Depression Could Lengthen Lung Cancer Patients’ Lives

Persistent depression can significantly shorten lung cancer survival—even if patients receive the latest cancer treatments, new research shows.

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Robert Preidt
2021
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Dark Days: Depression May Precede a Cancer Diagnosis in Some Cases

It’s no surprise that patients with cancer might become depressed, but now researchers say depression could precede a diagnosis. Here’s what you should know about the link between these two conditions.

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Amy Paturel
2020
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Depression: Cancer’s Invisible Side Effect

Three in four depressed cancer patients don’t get enough help; survivors tell what it’s like to slip ‘down the rabbit hole’ — and how to climb back out.

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Mary Engel
2016
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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Cynthia Hayes
2025
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2025
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