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Welcome to the club you didn’t ask to join. We're here to make it all suck a little less
and help you get busy living.
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Stupid Cancer's mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
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Upcoming Webinars
In Sickness and In Health: Caregiving for Your Romantic Partner
Time: Thursday, October 21 at 4:00 pm ET
Cancer is a huge strain on a relationship, whether or not you’ve taken any wedding vows. Adding the responsibility of caregiver to a partner role adds a new, potentially complicated dynamic. How do you take care of your own needs and responsibilities when your partner is sick? How do you have difficult conversations about sex and intimacy? This session for partner caregivers of AYA cancer patients will address the unique challenges of caregiving within a romantic relationship and provide strategies and tools for caregivers to best support their partner, their relationship, and themselves.
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Facing Off With Toxic Positivity
A cancer diagnosis brings up lots of complicated emotions, and you have the right to experience the full spectrum of feelings. But we all have loved ones who show up with an abundance of positivity. Sometimes their brand of support is helpful, and sometimes it is… just too much. This presentation will share some tools to help you honor your honest experience, communicate what you really need from others, and deal with toxic positivity.
How Psychiatry Can Help You Cope
Sometimes meditation or counseling just aren’t enough for the mental health toolkit for an AYA. Psychiatric care can help you manage normal human responses to extraordinary circumstances…like navigating a cancer diagnosis as an adolescent or young adult. Learn about what psychiatric medications can – and can’t – do, how a psychiatrist can act as an advocate, and ways that brief therapy interventions can make transitions in care less disruptive.
Discussion Series: Cancer, Sex, and Intimacy, Conversations about Cancer, Sex, and Intimacy Among LGBTQ+ Folks and Allies
It’s an intimate thing to talk about intimacy, sex, and cancer. Join our Community Dialogue intended for LGBTQ+ folks and allies to engage in safe and supportive conversations about the ways cancer impacts sex and intimacy, while building comfort with self-advocacy.
