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Acceptance

Posted by Sammy on December 12, 2000 at 08:35:05:

Dear All,
Wanted to share with you that the past few postings seem to ring a message of Acceptance. Funny thing as how the therapist I have begun seeing yelled this at me last meeting. Actually he added a few cuss words with it, which caught my attention as I tend to cuss every time I start to talk about my health. So onto what I began, Acceptance.... How is it we must accept a diagnosis? We did not begin to accept the symptoms or we would not have sought medical intervention, yes? (oooo bad grammar!) I don't want to accept any of my diagnosis, and yet I am unwilling to live or to learn to live with my symptoms. Disease? I have been wondering exactly what this means? Disorder? This too I have been questioning, these two words have been used interchanged but mean 2 different things. All of us can live with a disorder it seems, but none of us can with a Disease. I have heart disease, and vascular disease, and also N/C/RL a sleep Disorder. I can live with Disorder easily, compared to the Heart/Vascular disease. Yet, I put them together in my life as I must, and I have become unbearable as a person, and most definetly a NEW diagnosis as Depression. Now, I struggle to find a Viable, smart, sexy, strong person that once I was..... Now I am just tired and jumbled thoughts. Acceptance is it all it is cracked up to be? What do we do with it once we have it?

Peace and Sleep Well,
Sammy

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