Benefits of Cancer Rehabilitation
What is psychosocial support?
Cancer changes more than your body. It can affect how you feel, how you cope and your day-to-day life. When someone you love has cancer, it affects you too.
“Psychosocial support” is a clinical phrase for the emotional, mental, practical and social help that sits alongside your medical treatment.
It's support for how cancer affects your feelings, your relationships, your work and your everyday life, not just your body. It can be a conversation, a group, a psychologist, a counsellor, a helping hand with money, or something you do quietly on your own.
Psychosocial support is a core part of cancer care, and it’s there for you whenever you need it; at diagnosis, during treatment, after treatment ends and even long afterwards.
No two people will experience living with cancer in the same way, and thoughts and feelings can change over time. You may experience anxiety, fear or worry at certain times. For some people, these emotions might ease when treatment finishes, but for others they may continue for years, including a fear of cancer coming back. These feelings are all perfectly normal.
To find out more about what psychosocial support is, watch our animation below.
To hear from others affected by cancer and healthcare professionals describing what psychosocial support means to them, watch our video below.
Finding psychosocial support in South East London:
To find more information about emotional, practical and social support across South East London, please visit our resource designed with patients for patients and those close to them:
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