I feel like no one in the world understands what I am going through. i have two highly stigmatized illnesses. One is bipolar and the other is lung cancer. Maybe i have been cured of the lung cancer but the side effects of treatment persist. I also live with the possibility of recurrence and that I might die a horrible death.

I don't post about my mental illness on lung cancer forums, because of the stigma and I feel that I would just end up isolated, discounted and shunned. I don't expect people here to understand about cancer. In fact I have read posts about how some people wish they had cancer, which makes me feel even more isolated and alone.