Hello Krissy,
I felt actually the opposite with my experience. I found that when I
cried and would get upset (allowing myself to feel those feelings - and
understandably these feelings are valid for anyone with this awful
disease, where you suddenly can't walk, and feel sick etc.). But what I
found is that crying and letting myself get really upset about it all
just would make me feel really ill and unable to cope. (In fact, even
my crying has altered, and it comes out as this strange barking sort of
sound... weird!) What I found is that if I tried to keep everything
fairly calm and relaxed, try to avoid stress, and not let myself get too
upset, it seems to keep me in much better health. I'm sure everyone who
had this disease would have cried at times over the whole shock and
upset and stress of losing one's ability to walk, and so on... have
other people found that it helped them to cry? That's sure not what I
found.. It just gives me an awful headache, sore throat, and go all
shaky and weak and basically feeling dreadful. But being calm and
trying to relax and just accept things, and trying to go forward a bit
at a time, seems to work much better for me. That's just my experience,
anyway...
Kate
PS Hope this message goes through. The last ones I've tried have
bounced and can't get through... :-/
- Re: [TMIC] OT:Permission To Feel Kathryn Keen
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