Feeling guilty is common

There's a lot of people out there who really believe, you know, if you come up with cancer or something you must have some unreconcilable resentment issues, or an inability to express yourself. Like Woody Allen says, "I don't get angry, I grow tumors." In the reading I've done since, I can see that its really quite universal that people who are told they have cancer feel they caused it, and feel guilt for it. And any type of guilt is always painful and uncomfortable.





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