Longing for a sense of normality
cancer
CANCER
Feeling closed off from others, and the everyday life, was repeatedly brought up in the forum. Participants described sorrows and concerns, as well as frustrations over their experienced inability to live as they used to.I feel like my cancer closed me off, in a social way, I felt like all of a sudden it was really difficult to socialize in the same pace as before. The life of others just keeps on going as usual, while I feel like mine was completely ruined by cancer, it deprived me of being personal and open, committed and social. (Woman, 29 years old).