Don't listen to anyone calling you negative.

That is gaslighting, plain and simple.

They criticize you, so that makes you dwell on their comments, instead on the fact that they are cold, indifferent and abusive.

Just classic gaslighting.

Don't listen to a word of it.

Every single human on the planet, who goes through enormous medical problems becomes "negative." It's called reality.

Something they clearly do not want to deal with.

They are simply trying to run away from their conscience, from their responsibility to someone who is suffering.

Yeah, as far as "hanging in there" goes....sometimes if we just hunker down and survive the day in bed, watching TV, being a potato of the couch....that is enough. In that time, our mind and emotions get rest. That rests our nervous system. That clears our thoughts.

And it is rest like that, that finds solutions.

And sometimes the solution is to just take it one day at a time...sometimes one hour at a time.

I literally do that.

Sometimes I will schedule tasks for myself to do, each hour of the day, to just get through the day.

And by "tasks" sometimes I mean, do 5 crossword words this hour, do another 5 next hour...like that.

What we suffer...these kinds of problems? And with it, the unknowns? This is the hardest work that human beings get on the planet. There is nothing harder. And that makes us pure warriors...tougher than Olympic athletes....by far.

take care