ANGRY - not written by me - but I so agree with this person

A Few Good Reasons for Cancer Patients to be Angry:

• Your body has been mutilated and deformed by surgery
• You’ve lost some level of function as a result of surgery or other treatment
• Loss of attractiveness, even if just for a time, even if just perceived
• Loss of energy and stamina
• Your life has been disrupted, interrupted, put on hold, losing time and years you may never get back
• Forced alteration of lifestyle due to debilitating symptoms
• Inability to work
• Inability to perform at work at pre-cancer levels due to residual effects of treatment, both physical and cognitive
• Inability to work during treatment but working anyhow due to finances
• Diminished quality of life and inability to enjoy life due to all of the above, i.e., too sick and/or fatigued to socialize and therefore being shut in
• Diminished libido and low concept of self as a sexual being
• Loss of fertility
• Strained relationships
• Broken relationships, including estrangement from friends and divorce from spouses
• Strained and broken finances, even bankruptcy due to high cost of medical expenses
• Foreclosed houses resulting from an inability to work or the high cost of medical treatment

And you sometimes feel like:

• A medical experiment gone wrong
• Your body is as an old, worn-out junk car
• You’ll never be your former self
• Your emotions and psyche are scarred and you don’t know how to heal
• Your experience is trivialized, downplayed or discounted by others
• You’re judged for not bouncing back quickly enough
• Your day-to-day existence has been reduced to the struggle to survive
• Too many of your peers are dying from the disease
• Your days are numbered
• You feel you’ve prematurely entered old age.

 We surround ourselves with religious or spiritual beliefs that tell us that anger is sinful, negative, poison to the soul. We constantly filter ourselves. Is it any wonder some people erupt inappropriately? Talk about a buildup of pressure.
“Righteous anger” is often depicted in sacred texts, such as the wrath of God in the Torah or Jesus turning over the money tables in the Temple in the New Testament. Can you imagine if Jesus’s friends said to him, “Hey, man, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whaddya doing? You really need to put a lid on that, maybe take some anger management classes. And really, what good are those childish displays? Trust me, you’ll be a lot happier if you just accept what you can’t change and choose to be happy.”
Angry people effect change in this imperfect world. Do you think even in his passive resistance that Gandhi didn’t feel incensed about the injustices in his day? We often hold up as models civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks. You think they weren’t angry?
Angry people are in pain. Pain needs to be expressed through healthy outlets; otherwise, it’s bound to come out in any number of inappropriate ways such as venting on undeserving people. I can’t think of any better way to express anger or pain than through the arts. That includes painting, dancing, music, writing, poetry, and more. I would not stifle those expressions. If they make you uncomfortable, you don’t need to subject yourself.