Fibromyalgia Support Group
You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.
I just read a post from GKNEEZ where her son read some of the post on her fibro site and responded compassionately. This would be a good way to tell our families how this illness really effects all of us! There are those of us who have asked how to tell our husbands, kids etc how much this hurts. Well, I think she has the answer. Leave your computer where your family can read some of these and they may change their thoughts on how we really feel and what we go through on a daily basis.
This is just a thought
This is just a thought
I know there are a lot of things in my PMs and journals that I wouldn't want read by the wrong person. They were written in a time and place and things may be changed now but it's not always good to have everything out in the open.
But for some it might be OK. Just not me ;-)
WE all understand that none of us really want our friends and family to eat worms and die, contract a painful disease and feel what we feel, wish we'd drowned our children like puppies, or anything else we might say when we're angry, discouraged, in pain, or whatever is causing us to vent on any given day.
We just want to be understood, accepted, and believed, and this is one place we know that we're safe saying whatever we need to get out of our system "right now."
I might ask my husband (who I'm grateful is never anything but supportive) to read a particular thread in order to understand a particular issue better, and/or see other perspectives on something, but I would never leave my account logged on so that anyone could read my journals or whatever else they wandered into.