Manual № 60 · Coping with a serious medical diagnosis

AftertheDiagnosis

The manual for coping with a serious medical diagnosis.

Cancer, MS, heart disease, a word you had never heard. The first months, and the ones after.

12 modules — for the person who has just been given a serious diagnosis, and the people beside them

  1. 01The First Weeks
  2. 02When It Is More Than Adjustment
  3. 03Getting Your Arms Around the Information
  4. 04Deciding Without Certainty
  5. 05Scan Anxiety and the Waiting
  6. 06Telling People
  1. 07For the People Beside You
  2. 08Work, Money, and the Practical Weight
  3. 09The Patient and the Person
  4. 10Treatment Fatigue and the Long Middle
  5. 11Recurrence, Progression, and the Prognosis Conversation
  6. 12What Matters Now, and the Plan You Keep

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Ring You Can Actually Reach
  2. 02Directions, When the Destinations Have Moved
  3. 03Making Room for the Feeling
  4. 04Unhooking From the Thought
  5. 05Testing the Prediction
  6. 06The Worry Window
  7. 07Living With Not Knowing
  1. 08Solving What Can Actually Be Solved
  2. 09Pacing, and the Energy You Actually Have
  3. 10Doing Before Feeling
  4. 11Saying the Hard Thing
  5. 12Steadying the Body in a Spike
  6. 13The Voice You Would Use for Someone Else
  7. 14What Remains

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.