But when I finished six months of b

But when I finished six months of breast cancer therapy, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, in 1993, the situation was very different. When I complained about the overwhelming fatigue that persisted months and then years after the end of treatment, doctors prescribed psychotherapy, explaining that patients commonly suffered from depression after cancer. Other breast cancer survivors, I was told, reported nothing like this. Why, I wondered, did so many people doubt I had a real problem?Why did fatigue seem so shameful to me? How could I imbue my experience with a different meaning? How do others live with different types of fatigue? And how do cultural values inform the ways they narrate their experiences? This book originated in my attempt to answer those questions.