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This is Merl from the Modsupport Team.
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I’m in Australia and I’m a little unsure of services that maybe available to you. On the top bar of this page is the contact information for Crisis Help Line. Please utilize the services available to you.
I think we all have ‘those’ sort of days (sometimes weeks) at times. When we have a continual, ongoing health issue, adding that little bit more it can all become overwhelming really quickly. I’ve not too long ago had additional surgery myself, add that to my headaches and blahhhh. Just YUCK. And, YES, at times things are fairly rough, but slowly, slowly… …it does get easier. And easier isn’t really the right word. I think we slowly learn to ‘manage better’, rather than it becoming easier.
Yea, it certainly does. I find, for me, I need to ‘try’ (not always successfully) to divert my mind. I’ve fallen into that whirlpool of repeating negative thoughts before. When I can identify in myself when I’m heading there I need to change my mindset. Change my activity, occupy myself in another way. If I’ve got too much time my mind can lead me down some awful dark paths. I know this, so I try to avoid them.
OK, not my sort of reading material. Not exactly what I’d call light reading. He could well have had an undiagnosed cerebral AVM. But as @DickD states ‘…1900 – long before the ability of medicine to understand and do anything constructive about neurovascular conditions…’ I think some of the advancements just in the last 30yrs, since my journey started, are just amazing. Their knowledge of such things back then, 1900, was minimal at best.
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Merl from the Modsupport Team.