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Mutant ruminations

Shakota6
Shakota6
I realize that I spend a lot of time in automatic thoughts concerning how lazy I am now, I should be doing this and not resting, why can't I spend a couple of hours working at something.

etc, etc, etc and worse.

My real ambition in life is to stay out of any flare-up of pain and fatigue. End of story.

So, perhaps I'll nip all those automatic thoughts with a flash of the word MUTANT and leave myself alone.
lowernotes
lowernotes
maybe you can convince yourself that by resting enough you are WORKING to avoid a flare?
happyface01
happyface01
That's probably a good idea. Beating yourself up is probably not good either. I do it to myself as well. I take Tuesday and Thursday off to rest and the tell myself I should up doing more even though I've done 2 loads of laundry, gone to the grocery store and lugged in a big water jug and a 40lb bag of water softener salt. Also trying to handle two panicky calls from my daughter. I'm back on the couch for now and hope that after I watch a movie I'll be able to make a casserole! This is hard to get used to. I feel handicapped.
LeoX3
LeoX3
Rephrase it. Dialectal behavioral therapy I think they call it---DBT---I am doing it for my Lent challenge. Say I am Worthy and not I am worthless. So far, I've really gotten away from the worthless thing. Haven't had much luck subsituting the Worthy, but hey, one step at a time!:-)

Managing our lives IS A FULL TIME JOB. That's how I think of it. My job is to do what I can, accept I can't do it all, and try to have a little fun when I can. Gets me through most days.

Smiles,
leo
Shakota6
Shakota6
I think that I am heavily in denial about how much fatigue I have and how it interferes with everything I try to do. I find myself getting nervous when anything extra (doesn't have to be much) is on the horizon, like Easter.

I don't do very much at all but too easily life gets overwhelming due to fatigue.

Dialectical behavioral therapy looked interesting on Wikipedia.

Thanks for listening.