TV Journalist Amy Robach Says Cancer Taught Her To Feel Other People’s Pain

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Anger is a very natural response to a cancer diagnosis. But from that anger, something pretty amazing can come. That’s the experience ABC News Journalist Amy Robach had when she took on breast cancer. Amy recently sat down with SurvivorNet to discuss a few of the trials and tribulations you go through as you take on cancer.

As a seasoned journalist who has been on the ground at major events and disasters, Amy always considered herself a compassionate person. However, after facing cancer, Amy says she developed a new kind of compassion that wasn’t possible before her experience with the disease.

“Cancer is something that has changed my life forever, something that I will always live with,” Amy said. “There’s anger at first because you’ve lost security … and you’ve never had it to begin with, none of us actually have security, but you actually are grieving this loss of security because we all feel like there’s tomorrow. We all feel like there’s another day. When you get to something like this, you’re angry that you lost that. That that’s been taken away from you. From that anger, I think, grew compassion and empathy.”

Amy considers that loss of security one of the gifts that cancer can bring. “You truly, truly can feel other people’s pain in a way that you couldn’t have before.”

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