Tag: anxiety
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Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside! But It’s Hard Work
Summer holidays have started and most people are going away, looking forward to travelling and seeing new places and either relaxing or having new adventures. For people with ME/CFS (and other conditions I am sure), it’s a difficult and for many impossible. I like going to places and seeing something different. Choosing a holiday for…
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What Can I Do?
What can you do was a question asked on a facebook page the other day. I answered ” I am limited due to health problems and get so hung up on what I can’t do. It’s much better to focus on what I can do and be proud of what I acheieve, but I don’t think…
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Dark Nights
I am posting this with trepidation as I don’t want to be criticised or thought badly of, but having shared with a few people who have said it is good and powerful I am going to bite the bullet. Warning emotional content, you don’t have to read it, written a few nights ago around 1am.…
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Daily Living with ME pt3
Way back in 1990 I began training to be a nurse. It was great, I loved it so much, but sadly like many other things in my life it was brought to an end by ill health. When we were assessing patients we used a model called Activities of Daily living devised by Roper Logan…
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How do I know if it is working?
If you have read my previous post you will know I am trying something called Alpha Stim. It’s an expensive piece of equipment that is meant to help with pain, anxiety and depression. “The Alpha-Stim® M unites Microcurrent Electrical Therapy (MET) with Cranial Electrotherapy (CES) like never before. Microcurrent Electrical Therapy has been proven to…
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I want to resign!
The other day having a conversation with Rob as I was upset that I rarely get to do things I want or enjoy doing cos I am too worn out form doing every day stuff and was saying that people who work full time and do all their own housework get more pleasurable things done…
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ME and guilt
Been feeling really guilty and anxious this weekend. There is a lot going on and I am dependent on Rob to get things done, which makes me feel bad as he has a full time job and deserves a break at weekends, but weekends get so manic trying to fit things in and keep up…
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Anniversaries
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Elephants!
How do you deal with Elephants, I don’t mean the big grey things, but the one that always lurks in the room. ““Elephant in the room” is an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or going unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no…
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Anxiety
Aggghh, my anxiety levels are going mad, I am so tired and in pain too. Now Emily is back at school I am in the house alone much of the day and my mind works over time and drives me mad with issues that bother me and other than my blog I have no outlet…