Treatment Of Security?

As I spend more and more time around cancer patients in treatment...
it becomes ever more apparent they feel safer near their doctors or primary
treatment facilities. For some just being in the same town is
a security lifeline which permits them to live day to day with less anxiety,
fear and concern for their conditions. Ironically for most, even being released
to go "home, home", (real home towns), creates great tension and
apprehension that they will not taken care of or that something will happen
to them while they are back in their own homes with their families.

I spoke with a survivor of breast cancer of many years. She told me that
even for her...she worked in a hospital, and preferred to be at work during
her treatment period as it made her feel more safe. "If something happened,"
she said, "I was in the right place."

Makes you wonder about celebrities, since that is who we hear about ....like
Michael Jackson. Perhaps it isn't the medical treatment they seek as much as
the security of having a medical professional at their beck and call. Even sadder in his case... the doctor may not been there for him medically, or more importantly did not provide the safety and security Michael Jackson may have really been seeking.


Jodi H. Underhill MEd. LMHC Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Certified K-12 Guidance Counselor License #MH9166 Phone: 386.747.7148 Fax: 386.873.4311 http://www.junderhilltherapy.com/