Coping with Chronic Illness
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:01 pm
From a clinical psychologist: https://aeon.co/essays/it-takes-psychol ... ket-newtab
To enhance the quality of life for individuals with RLS/WED and their families.
http://bb.rls.org/
This is taken from the above link -- What wonderful words.Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.’
John Wooden (1910-2010), NCAA basketball coach
YES!Polar Bear wrote:This is taken from the above link -- What wonderful words.Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.’
John Wooden (1910-2010), NCAA basketball coach
So glad it helped!Bridgercan wrote:Thank you, Ann, for posting that link! Reading it just helped me feeling a whole lot better about my choice to stay in bed and rest today while my spouse and friends went skiing. And it will help me figure how to pursue my hobbies (photography and writing) within my reality of each day’s here and now. I suddenly feel a lot better—yay!!
OMG-so true! Story of my lifeViewsAskew wrote:
I have had to keep coming back to some of these lessons.
Ditto to all that—especially when things are good and sleep is better, my imagination and passion for everything returns, and then, like you said, it falls apart. But you’re spot on about the less to learn, the less the fall is.The worst, for me, is when I feel good. When the meds are working well, when the other chronic things have let up. I think it's normal again. I think I can work full time. I look for jobs, I dream of starting one of the ten businesses I want to start.
And, then it all falls to pieces again. And, I am back at this lesson. Each time I have less to learn, the fall not as deep or far. But, come back I do. Maybe always will.