HoneyLove
11-04-13, 20:50
Hi everyone,
I'm struggling a little today, at the moment I'm going through vestibular rehabilitation therapy to help me recover my balance. I have lots of problems with my vision and ears and it's getting me down today. My vision is a bit messed up and it makes everything seem so weird and surreal sometimes, kind of like the depersonalisation that some anxiety sufferers experience. Ordinary things can be very challenging, like simply working on a computer or reading. I am exhausted a lot, and often find myself just trying to get through the day so that I can be back in bed and asleep again as soon as possible.
I worry sometimes that I will always live in this weird messed up world with funny balance and vision. I worry about living a life that doesn't really feel like I'm actually here. But I know that this is the story that I'm inventing, my physio thinks that I should be a lot better in the future and in fact I have improved a lot over time.
I know that a positive mental attitude really helps with recovery, and by holding the belief in my mind that I will heal will help me to do so. And when I'm doing my exercises I try to repeat to myself that I choose to heal, to help reinforce that the exercises are helping me and that I *will* get better.
I guess I wanted to ask if you're having a bad day what do you do to keep that vision of a better you in mind? Do you have any techniques to share that help you see a brighter better future and to hold onto it?
In the past it was very easy for me to dive deep into anxiety or despair when I felt like this, but now I try to constantly remind myself to just accept this problem I'm having and hold a vision of a health future in my mind. So I guess that's a small improvement too :)
Any advice or just a chat would be appreciated x
I'm struggling a little today, at the moment I'm going through vestibular rehabilitation therapy to help me recover my balance. I have lots of problems with my vision and ears and it's getting me down today. My vision is a bit messed up and it makes everything seem so weird and surreal sometimes, kind of like the depersonalisation that some anxiety sufferers experience. Ordinary things can be very challenging, like simply working on a computer or reading. I am exhausted a lot, and often find myself just trying to get through the day so that I can be back in bed and asleep again as soon as possible.
I worry sometimes that I will always live in this weird messed up world with funny balance and vision. I worry about living a life that doesn't really feel like I'm actually here. But I know that this is the story that I'm inventing, my physio thinks that I should be a lot better in the future and in fact I have improved a lot over time.
I know that a positive mental attitude really helps with recovery, and by holding the belief in my mind that I will heal will help me to do so. And when I'm doing my exercises I try to repeat to myself that I choose to heal, to help reinforce that the exercises are helping me and that I *will* get better.
I guess I wanted to ask if you're having a bad day what do you do to keep that vision of a better you in mind? Do you have any techniques to share that help you see a brighter better future and to hold onto it?
In the past it was very easy for me to dive deep into anxiety or despair when I felt like this, but now I try to constantly remind myself to just accept this problem I'm having and hold a vision of a health future in my mind. So I guess that's a small improvement too :)
Any advice or just a chat would be appreciated x