Apostar a la Vida I Distribuidor

1st Prize in the category
Patient Services
America 2007 Excellence Award
granted by the American Cancer Society
by the "Patient Health Project
oncology Gambling Foundation
to Life "Santiago de Chile

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Our history

"Where there is life there is struggle for life"

"Cancer is curable"
The APOSTAR A LA VIDA Foundation arises from the creation of a Group Psychotherapy for cancer patients is based on April 1993 by Dr. Silvia Garsd (specialist in psycho-oncology) and Hugo Basilico (oncology patient recovered); responding produced the need for psychological distress which is the cancer patient. When you receive the diagnosis, your mind is dominated by the fear of death, mutilation, loss of moral forces, the psychophysical deterioration, abandonment of any activity carried out regularly.

Group formation

In October 1992 the patient Hugo R. Basilico diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphomas are referred for psychological attention.
At that time, fortunately in time, the techniques implemented by the treating professional is taken out of that frame of mind: recovering strength, courage and the will to live overcomes him with full intensity.
Characterized by a natural condition of leadership, able to interpret what others feel sick.
A man of great intelligence and nobility, with the idea of "helping others I help myself" intends to participate with the doctor on the project to create the first professional team-oncology patient. From that moment generates a volunteer patients who were transformed into health agents which contain, reflect, inform and train their peers. to share with them similar feelings and experiences over the diagnosis. The patient knows their rights, restores their ability to fight and becomes the protagonist of his historia.De This will form a group called "APOSTAR A LA VIDA", which today meet in different parts of the country where patients are cared free.

Presentation

When the diagnosis is cancer doctor who receives it, absolutely can not hear anything more. The emotional shock, which occurs as a result of the partnership that makes this disease with death is inevitable. From this, the cancer patient now falls into a critical state of terror, despair, if not despair.
One hears, "Cancer changed my life" now only think in the immediate future and very little promise, creating a state of infinite pain and anguish, as sentiment continued, preventing all activity and rest. Under these conditions psychic appeal to our groups.
A highly trained team of professional psychologists in conjunction with other recovered patients psychic and psychologically, "which have reached a degree of inner balance is received, holding it by bringing the emotional overflow, which followed in time will play against the recovery of his health.
Then share beliefs and experiences with peers helps lower anxiety levels and begin the road of struggle for life, but now with hope, and that fears will be dispersed, transformed into sound energy and strength.
The concept from which we start is: "Where there is life there is struggle for life." The large number of patients going and / or are part of the group are a sample, a clear mirror of life, who defied all odds to understand that cancer is not a condemnation. That although not the same as before diagnosis, it can be a better person.
Another of the basics of Betting is that when better quality of life is achieved, more of life we get (quality depends on what one finds inside what is best for himself).

You learn to clear the mental field, eliminating or controlling risk factors: compulsions, pressures, obligations, of which nothing is omitted if not too-too amending wrongs created by mandates or by social conditioning and many other things that have slowed development of self.
Achieving this, patients are plotted a plan for life after a meeting with his inner good and well, they discover the amount of resources they have, thanks to intelligence and reason (it's proprietary human being). This strategy can generate a potential energy with unknown so far, and face not only a cure but a new approach to the facts that everyday life poses.
Discover a new meaning in their lives, domestic welfare is a growing each fortifying the immune system that acts in pursuit of health.
The new oncology patient who comes to Life Gambling has been transformed into a "new man". Attend to medical treatment with the strength and hope necessary for the effect of these enhances their action.
"Do not get too carried away, knowing that the only battle that is lost is not to fight: when this issue arises, we will work intensively in the group. It is what we call "rescue psychotherapy.
Our people, knows that life has finally triumphed, never much cost little and do all that if we lose, we do not recover, it is life.
Among the scientific advances and new positive attitude of the patient, we can confirm the sharp drop in mortality rate, a fact proven by those who attend regularly and systematically to groups.

There are no miracles, do an intense daily work to get to know each discovered and nurtured.
Now you can understand that, "we are now!", A project of life is possible, as demonstrated by thousands of patients who learn this philosophy, then understood that cancer is a second chance that life offers.

Today cancer is curable.