By Jessica Zucker — 2021
For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.
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This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
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Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.
I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.