New diagnosis and early-stage disease. Why me? Why not me? What now? : and why is a psychiatrist writing a book about prostate cancer? ; How can you make the right treatment choice when there is no perfect choice? ; Lifting the weight of waiting and preparing for treatment : deciding between definitive treatment and watchful waiting or active surveillance ; Prostate cancer anxiety, depression, and sleep problems : relax and enter the draft of the emotional judo playbook ; Do I really need a psychiatric medication to cope with prostate cancer? ; Keeping the flames of intimacy alive ; Urinary, bowel, and energy leaks : this wasn't supposed to happen to me ; Not for patients only : spouses or partners can manage prostate cancer better too
Later-stage disease and recurrence of disease. Coping with recurrence of cancer if the "definitive" treatment doesn't work : going hormonal ; Grieving for loss of trust, physical wholeness, and sense of immortality : reinvesting in your future as a wise role model.
