psycologist update

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heather1
heather1 NonActiveMember5yrs Posts: 75
edited 15. Aug 2009, 09:16 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi "pain buddies"

I had my appointment today and she was very impressed in how i have accepted my pain and learnt to live with it.

I asked her why it has taken 4 years to see someone to talk about my pain and feelings when i really needed help in the first year when i was depressed and felt so alone but she didn't have an answer to that.

I was quite chuffed because she asked me to come along to the pain meetings as i will be an inspiration to others!

All in all it was nice to get afew things off my chest.
The only issue i have is relaxation because it just hurts to do it.

She told me to look up a web site called "breathworks".

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  • valval
    valval NonActiveMember5yrs Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    sounds like it went great glad 4 u :D:D:D
    val
  • woodbon
    woodbon NonActiveMember5yrs Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi, Its great that you've found something to help you. We all have different things that help us and it can be very hard to find the one for us. Love Sue
  • skezier
    skezier NonActiveMember5yrs Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Heather,

    This is interesting cus my pain clinic doctor keeps telling me she is going to send me to see someone to help with my 'denial' to the oa let alone the new and improved type. I wont give up my life you see and there is little doubt I am aggravating my bones to the extreme............ Its kinda complicated :wink::lol:

    I wonder if its one of these people she is talking about? She said it would help me to except my limitations...... Though I sometimes think the day I do that is the day I give up! Do they try and make you change your life style? Sorry I gone on a bit. Cris x
  • heather1
    heather1 NonActiveMember5yrs Posts: 75
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Cris

    She makes you think about your pain and how it effects you and those around you.

    I told her i sometimes do things that i know are going to be painful for my back but because i am so stubborn i just do them anyway.

    She realised that i have come through all the struggling and have accepted i am going to live with pain.

    I carn't help thinking how much more use it would have been seeing this dr so much earlier.

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