Coping with Chronic Illness
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Coping with Chronic Illness
From a clinical psychologist: https://aeon.co/essays/it-takes-psychol ... ket-newtab
Ann - Take what you need, leave the rest
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Re: Coping with Chronic Illness
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
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Re: Coping with Chronic Illness
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
Ann - Take what you need, leave the rest
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Re: Coping with Chronic Illness
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!!
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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!!
I have had to keep coming back to some of these lessons. 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.
Ann - Take what you need, leave the rest
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Re: Coping with Chronic Illness
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.
The hard part for me is to remember when things do fall apart, I do come back, that things are not nearly as awful as my monkey mind makes life out to be, especially at 3am on a sleepless night...
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Indeed!
Ann - Take what you need, leave the rest
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