Exhausted hearing about other people's problems
Has anyone else ever felt this way while navigating cancer/survivorship... It's like I don't have the bandwidth to be present for my loved ones when they're experiencing problems that seem mundane or trivial.
Like, oh you had a bad day at work? Well at least you can work because you don't have cancer.
On the one hand, I feel bad that I'm minimizing what others are going through -- obviously people can have valid annoyances in their life even if they don't have cancer. But on the other hand, I can't help but feel like close people in my life are being insensitive by venting to me, of all people, about minor daily annoyances. I end up just ignoring them or shutting them out.
I'm still in active treatment but the worst is (hopefully) over and my hair is growing back. It almost feels like people forgot what I went through or something? I still feel so far from being "in the clear" and "normal" and it's isolating. Can anyone else relate? How do you handle situations like this?