Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Adapting Successfully to Long Term Illness – May Start with Dumping the Denial

Another must read for anyone struggling with pacing

Adapting Successfully to Long Term Illness – May Start with Dumping the Denial

ADAPTING TO FIBROMYALGIA

When I received the diagnosis of fibromyalgia in February of 2001, I realized I had been unknowingly living with illness and denying it most of my life.

Even as a child, I felt like my nerves were all prickly and fuzzy like static buildup. I lived with pain, stiffness, fatigue and troubled sleep. Into adulthood, weather changes, certain foods, lights, sound, the touch of my clothes, even thinking hurt. Every day was an exhausting struggle.

But the worst would pass, and I would be told how healthy I looked and that I was just out of shape and needed to push myself harder, and that there was really nothing wrong with me and I was just too sensitive.

I accepted this view of myself and lived in denial of the truth of my experience

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