Its interesting to see the mixed responses to this thread. The truth is you cant predict how you will react. A small number of you know I was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year, and it changed my mental state completely. You dont think in the same ways as you did beforehand and although I can't speak in general terms, I know for me cancer came with depression. I thought about suicide on a daily basis, and got very close a few times, luckily I had someone that I could talk to and they kept me from giving up. (Thankyou! you know who you are
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Some of you wont ever experience the despair of knowing that something is killing you and not having any control over it, and you are lucky. Fortunately for me I am over the worst part and the next stage of this challenge is mostly financial rather than emotional, which is a lot easier to deal with, believe me.