I just think that the fighter mentality puts so much pressure on the person in distress. It's unhelpful and unrealistic and you just beat yourself up...
Or you can use this to change your narrative to one where you know what imagination can do and use this as a way of challenging your thoughts, as in,...
I've posted here before many times of all the diseases I've "had". Anything from testicular cancer, lymphoma, oral cancer, brain tumors, you name it....