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Importance of focusing on Positive with Depression & Anxiety.

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Nov 7, 2022 | Replies (623)
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@linamend

Thank you, Rachel. I see you are connected totally on this. I am deeply moved by the story of your mom. So sorry.

Like her, I'm 72 and just utterly exhausted by this journey. I have a therapist, a psychiatrist, a neurologist, and an internist. One physician has been working w me for 30+ years and has saved my life more than once.

But there is no more fight left. I'll take what pain relief I can get, and hope I don't have to live thru this much longer.

But I'm extremely healthy in every other way. I dress fashionably, dye my hair funky colors, am financially independent.. in other words-->I am totally in disguise as someone in chronic pain.

There are many people like me. I have close friends in the same situation. We plod along, thankful for the wonderful people like YOU in the world, that understand what we are going thru. We are not living. We are existing.

Sending you BIG THANKFUL HUGS! 🤗

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Rachel, Volunteer Mentor | @rwinney | Jul 7, 2022

I don't know Lin, you had me at funky hair colors!! Hide all you want behind those funky hair colors, but that tells me you do care enough about yourself to present well, even if it's a facade. Now, we just have to match the inside to the hair.

Here's my thought, and this was a huge part of my rehab and I have to keep myself in check daily on it....
eliminate pain behaviors.

Pain behaviors are anything we do, say or think that reminds us or someome of our symptoms. It's called "accessing the network" and it's self sabatoging. Takes alot of practice.

Thanks for the big thankful hugs. I'm sending them right back atcha along with my wish list for you:

Surround yourself with positive people, find humor everyday, spend time with children, animals and in nature, listen to music, keep a gratitude journal (and put me in it for today - haha), focus on the things you can control not what you can't, and let me know the next color choice for your hair. 😊

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