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03/04/2008 22:05
cindyloo
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teach123, Thank-you for your encouragement. It all seems so easy, and it's not!!! It seems as though everything is a struggle!!

I am on meds, I guess they help me (sometimes) but this just hit me and knocked me right on the ground, and I can't seem to get up.

I think it's doing me some good to talk (well write) about it. The thing that would help me the most, I think would be to get an explanation. I'm still composing what I'm going to send, and I will send it! Don't know how people can think they can just screw with your life...

I didn't ask to have the Kleenex passed to me once!! I think that's a good sign!!

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03/05/2008 05:25
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Good morning Cindy, today is another day. Meet it head on. Set yourself one small goal today and do it. Even if it is something small. Life is a struggle and sometimes it is hard, but you have to pull yourself up. Call your docs if you think you need to. Call your friends, write your new friends at the forum. Remember---people care about you.

YOur friend,

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03/05/2008 10:22
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In the past I would have also said pick your self up and brush your self off ... but that just isn't as easy for me now. Really!!! It (almost) seems to get a bit easier every day, but then something else hits me in the face and it ALL comes rushing back to me.

I'm having problems reading others posts! I want to, I need to. But I just seem to feel so bad for others that I have leave the computer, sometimes feeling worse than when I sat down here!

Thanx so much for listening everyone!!

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03/05/2008 11:11
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I was just on the phone with my mother. I cried and told her how bad things were and how I had so much to do and all I wanted to do was crawl in a hole and hide. That I had been so sick I had not done my dishes, etc. she told me to make a list of all the things I need to do. then just pick one thing and do it today. nothing big, just one thing. then do 2 things tomorrow. just a slow and poductive way to pick yourself up. I am not sure I will be able to do it, but I pass this on to you and everyone else. if it helps just one person, I will be happy.

when you have trouble reading post because it makes you feel worse, remember something. There is always someone out there that is better off or worse off then you. If just one comment you make helps someone, then you have made someone a little better off and that makes you a little better. That is another wize thing from my mother.

when I feel like I am a waist of space and air because I dont have anything to offer. Then I come in here and see that something I said helped someone or made someone laugh, then I get that feeling that I do have something to offer sometimes.

(sorry for rambeling)

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03/05/2008 12:45
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Your mother sounds like a wise woman. Mothers have a way of saying all of the right things--like they go to school for it or something. When I was nursing, I never really believed in depression. I always thought people should have the energy to pull themselves out of bad and sad situations. Then DEPRESSION hit me. It snuck up on me. I was down for a long time. If I ever get to be a nurse again, I will certainly have a different attitude about depression and be kinder and loving with my patients. Just hang on, there is alot of support for you-----just reach out and grab it.

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03/05/2008 12:53
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funny how walking in someone elses shoes makes you think different. More Dr. and health care workers need to know what it is to walk in the shoes of patients. Looks like you have learned that. Thank you for making me smile.

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03/05/2008 16:53
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I've battled depression a few times. It can be really nasty.

I've learned that weird things help me.

Key phrases. Like, This too shall pass. I CAN DO THIS! I can't do anything about it so I have to let it go.

I played the song below for months at a time in the early 80's. To this day, I still pull those lyrics out when I need to.

(Helen Reddy and Ray Burton)

I am woman, hear me roar

In numbers too big to ignore

And I know too much to go back an' pretend

'Cause I've heard it all before

And I've been down there on the floor

No one's ever gonna keep me down again

Oh yes, I am wise

But it's wisdom born of pain

Yes, I've paid the price

But look how much I gained

If I have to

I can do anything

I am strong (strong)

I am invincible (invincible)

I am woman

You can bend but never break me

'Cause it only serves to make me

More determined to achieve my final goal

And I come back even stronger

Not a novice any longer

'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

Oh, yes, I am wise

But it's wisdom born of pain

Yes, I've paid the price

But look how much I gained

If I have to

I can face anything

I am strong (strong)

I am invincible (invincible)

I am woman

I am woman watch me grow

See me standing toe to toe

As I spread my lovin' arms across the land

But I'm still an embryo

With a long, long way to go

Until I make my brother understand

Oh, yes, I am wise

But it's wisdom born of pain

Yes, I've paid the price

But look how much I gained

If I have to

I can face anything

I am strong (strong)

I am invincible (invincible)

I am woman

Oh, I am woman

I am invincible

I am strong

I am woman

I am invincible

I am strong

I am woman

Maybe none of this will help you but if you can find one little thing to hang onto, then tomorrow that little thing will be a bit bigger and so on.

Gentle hugs to you!

Jo

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03/05/2008 16:56
indianajo
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And those of us that struggle with Fibro ARE STRONG! We ARE INVINCIBLE! Why? How do I know? Because we have to be. We have to fight every day to do things that normals do easily.

That makes us strong. Makes us invincible. If we can't do it today, look out baby, we'll be trying again tomorrow.

We have indomitable spirits that keep us going.

WE ARE WOMAN!!!

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03/05/2008 18:30
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Ya all make it sound so easy! I guess I'm still in the crawl in a hole and hide mode...I just wish I could get out of this!!!

But at least I keep coming back, for now that will be the bright side!

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03/05/2008 18:43
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Oh honey! NO ONE ever said it was easy. NO ONE ever thought it was easy.

((((cindyloo))))

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