Friday, 01 January 2021. Issue #246.
In this issue: Panic attacks isn’t just ‘irritation’ in its simple form, but one that carries pulses of electrical anxiety that eventually floods your brain. Let’s take the fear from 2020, set it alight with hope, and take that forward via the January writing prompts. Doctors need to know that there is a human being underneath the diagnosis, who needs to be acknowledged. The emotional pain that results from chronic pain can make it harder to get through bad pain flares. A glimpse into the lives of the chronically ill, who have been living in isolation long before the pandemic. Bringing sacred rituals into the every day is a wonderful way to invite magic into the mundane. When pain becomes chronic, it becomes much harder to deal with as distraction techniques don’t help. It’s important for disabled people to stay active, but our exercise equipment needs to be adapted to our needs. At stage four of our sleep, blood is usually redirected to our muscles for restorative purposes (and an infographic of what else our bodies do when we sleep). Mobility aids are a positive addition into a disabled person’s life, and shouldn’t be seen as something negative or to be ashamed of.
"It isn’t ‘#irritation’ in its simple form, but one that carries pulses of electrical #anxiety via the nerves of my brain. The pulses turn into currents, and the currents into a gushing flood": https://t.co/M8KPJJYMNF #PanicAttacks #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain pic.twitter.com/tzAbs5XTU5
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 28, 2020
[New] "Let’s take this fear from 2020, set it alight w a small flame, and carry that light with #hope into 2021. Happy #writing and as always, I can’t wait to read every single one of your takes on the #January #writingprompts!": https://t.co/U2oKS2U8fl #ChronicLife #MondayBlogs pic.twitter.com/REFQSXcMs8
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 27, 2020
“I want #doctors to recognize that there is a #humanbeing buried beneath the symptoms and the test results. And that person simply wants to be acknowledged as such": https://t.co/oUwTHnPvzc #humanity #PatientCare #healthcare
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 30, 2020
"Baseline #pain..is something we just deal with..We can modestly function with it..Other days the pain makes us immobile..the #emotional toll can be..greater as we just try to get thru the pain": https://t.co/MmoqDdzgnR @Nikki_Albert #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 27, 2020
“there is a portion of the population that has lived in #isolation long before #coronavirus was even on the world’s radar. This subset is the #chronicallyill”: https://t.co/J6gZaFy49Y @cavalierdaily #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllness
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 30, 2020
“Bringing the #sacred #rituals into the every day is a wonderful way to invite magic into the mundane”: https://t.co/ghlcS4oqoB @bloomingmindxx #EverydayLife #spoonie #SelfCare
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 24, 2020
“When it becomes #chronic, however, #pain is much harder to cope with, and making #distraction much harder to implement in life": https://t.co/ZYCENqfNae @serenebutterfly #ChronicPain #ChronicLife
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 26, 2020
"It’s important for #disabled people to stay as active as possible but we can’t do that if we have a bunch of useless pieces of equipment": https://t.co/OeyJrXC8Oh @sarahlynn358 #fitness #exercise #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 30, 2020
"A typical night of #sleep consists of five different cycles, each lasting for about 90 mins. At stage 4..blood that usually flows to our brain is redirected to our muscles for #restorative purposes instead": https://t.co/Uz9R3P0OXY #healing #recovery #HealthyLiving pic.twitter.com/FsNlVvxpxe
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 27, 2020
“Y is it that when wheels are added to a chair it somehow becomes something #negative? Something to be avoided or #ashamed of, when the opposite is true? #MobilityAids..are a #positive & valuable addition..offering #independence & freedom”: https://t.co/5AMD3ocEDw @JourneyFog
— A Chronic Voice (@AChVoice) December 24, 2020
*Note: This article is meant for educational purposes, and is based on each person’s individual experiences and circumstances. It is not to be substituted for medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before changing or adding new treatment protocols.
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