Accepting Your Illness Is Not Giving Up.

They say that accepting we are sick is giving up. That we have

-No reasons to live

-No hope for the future

That we are

-Not trying at anything

-Not seeking any medical care

-Not focusing on getting better

-Only complaining for attention

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But accepting your illness requires:

-Balancing what you appreciate in life with acknowledgment of severe suffering

-Not waiting on or expecting hope of a cure to be your reason for life

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So as chronically ill people, we are:

-Not trying to do things we know are outside our limits

-Not seeking validation from doctors or cures that we know don't exist

-Focusing on symptom management and safe activities

-Venting to people in order to protect our mental health and find community

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We know that sometimes accepting illness means

-Accepting limits

-Accepting help

-Accepting the life we get even when it's not the one we wanted

-Accepting terminality & death

And none of this is giving up.

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Accepting Your Illness Is Not Giving Up!

They say that accepting we are sick is giving up. That we have

-No reasons to live

-No hope for the future

That we are

-Not trying at anything

-Not seeking any medical care

-Not focusing on getting better

-Only complaining for attention

But accepting your illness requires:

-Balancing what you appreciate in life with acknowledgment of severe suffering

-Not waiting on or expecting hope of a cure to be your reason for life

So we are:

-Not trying to do things we know are outside our limits

-Not seeking validation from doctors or cures that we know don't exist

-Focusing on symptom management and safe activities

-Venting to people in order to protect our mental health and find community

We know that sometimes accepting illness means

-Accepting limits

-Accepting help

-Accepting the life we get even when it's not the one we wanted

-Accepting terminality & death

And none of this is giving up.