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Chronic Pain members - Welcome, please introduce yourself

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Hello
I just joined this online support group. I am already feeling better knowing I am not alone with my chronic condition. This involves lower back surgeries and ongoing treatments. I often feel like no one understands what it is like to deal with daily pain and limited mobility. The fatigue makes even simple tasks at work and at home difficult. Some days, getting out of bed, walking, or sitting for long stretches feels overwhelming. Keeping up with household chores is tough, too. Still, I am well enough right now to take part in this group's activities. I want to end this message by wishing you all a good day of recovery and painless mobility.

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@pedrov57 I'm sorry for your suffering but touched by your desire to focus on what you can do and in wishing us all good thoughts! Focusing on the positive with a clear perspective (clear, in brain fog?!) is so helpful! Everything can go wrong and we can still find gratitude in the circumstance. It takes the sting out of our problems and gives us energy. Choosing cheerfulness is a powerful way to boost energy in our lowest times. Reflecting on the good in our past, saying "What else could go right?" and meaning it, and finding good will for others, deserved or undeserved, gives us power and energy and got me out of my lowest physical points when weakness meant I couldn't see my teen daughter after school because if she complained about her day it sucked the energy I had left and I couldn't even make a sound. I was so weak I could hardly breath. Post Viral Syndrome (long Covid) hadn't been discovered, and I lay there for months on end. After 18 months I could leave the house. I could get back in shape. I started to live again. And I'm so grateful I learned to harness gratitude!