Why Do We Subscribe Blame to Breast Cancer Victims

You have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, the blame game begins. First of all, you might blame yourself. After all, there is no one in your family with a history of breast cancer. So if this is not hereditary, then you must have done something in the way you conducted your life to this point that has resulted in you getting this cancer.

“It is time to stop blaming yourself and start being practical about the fact that if you have breast cancer, consult with your doctors and work on a prescribed treatment plan that has been specifically designed for you. “Barbara Jacoby

Let’s assess your diet. You haven’t always done such a good job of staying away from the sweets and may have been overdoing your consumption of high fatty foods for ages. You may be carrying some extra pounds that you have been promising to lose for years now. You keep saying you’re going to start that new exercise program but you just never quite get around to it. So you assess yourself and decide that the way you have been living your life is, in fact, responsible for your getting breast cancer based upon all of the different things that you have been reading.

Then there is your family! They are trying to figure out how it is that you got breast cancer when no one else in the family has it. It must be something that you have done to bring this about. After all, if you compare yourself to the other women in the family, you must have been doing certain things that nobody else is doing or you wouldn’t have gotten cancer.

Now if you really take the time to read and evaluate, you will find that only 25 percent of those who get breast cancer have it as a hereditary factor. Furthermore, look at all of the people who have been eating healthy diets and doing more than the recommended amount of exercise every day for years and they still got breast cancer. You may think that they should have been doing a different type of exercise or should have been doing yoga or working out for longer periods of time on the daily basis. You may try to assess what they have been including in their diets and even though they are thin maybe they haven’t been eating all of the right foods. You just can’t help but think that there are just so many factors to consider.

It is time to stop trying to find something or someone to blame and start being realistic and reasonable about breast cancer. If we had the information and the evidence that if you ate a certain diet and did certain exercises, then we’d be able to stop breast cancer from ever occurring again.

Obviously, this is not the case. It is time to stop blaming yourself and start being practical about the fact that if you have breast cancer, consult with your doctors and work on a prescribed treatment plan that has been specifically designed for you. But most of all, you must start being nice to yourself and never look back. You can’t change anything that has happened in the past. You got breast cancer. And until the day comes when it can be discovered as to why certain people do get breast cancer, the best thing that you can do is to live your life to the best of your ability, one day at a time.