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Learning to Hope
Carol Farran, an eldercare expert from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, sought to understand
why some nursing home residents thrived despite adversity and isolation while others just withered away.
The difference between the two groups, she found, was hope—not the blind or rigid optimism that usually
passes for hope, but an open sense of possibility, acceptance of risk, and a willingness to work things out.
Hopeful people face reality in a clear-eyed fashion, doing the best they can. One woman too sick to go
outdoors, for instance, maintained an upbeat attitude by remembering the emotional riches of her past.
"The hopeful person looked at reality and then arrived at solutions. If a hoped-for outcome became
impossible, the hopeful person would find something else to hope for," Farran found.
The role of hope in cancer has also come under scrutiny. Psychologists at the Royal Marsden Hospital in
London and Sutton studied women with early-stage breast cancer and found that risk of recurrence or
death increased significantly among those who lacked hope. There was nothing mysterious or mystical
about it: Hopeful patients managed their illness themselves instead of letting outsiders pull the strings.
They often chose the most aggressive treatments. And envisioning the light at the end of the tunnel helped
provide the strength they needed to get through each difficult day.
Yet hope was not a given for them; it was an attitude they wrested from despair. Despite being an expert
on hope, Farran could not muster any when she herself was diagnosed with breast cancer. She met the
news with anger,grief, and fear of death.Panicpropelled her through treatment, in a total daze. Only when
she went in for breast reconstruction was a wisenurse able to penetrate her panic: "A year from now you'll
be where you want to be, but there is no way to get there except by going through this experience, now.
