Can negative emotions, stress, sadness, bad attitudes, and other negative feelings cause Cancer?
No evidence whatsoever exists to suggest this is the case. There is no evidence that stress or any emotion causes cancer or affects the progress of cancer in any way. People find it easier to deal with other people’s cancer if they can blame it on something specific – diet, lifestyle, stress. Blame the victim. It’s easier and less frightening than accepting that cancer is random and can strike any one of us at any time. And when people are diagnosed with cancer they’re very often desperate to find a reason or explanation. They remember the events that seem linked – divorce, breavement, job loss etc. But they forget all the people who have been through the same stress and haven’t developed cancer, and the people who have experienced no stress or trauma who haven’t developed cancer. I was diagnosed with cancer at the end of a dreadful year during which, among other things, two beloved family members had died on the same day. A couple of years before I had had such stress at work that I h
