Living Well With Chronic Illness
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It can be hard to live with any chronic illness. There are days of endless pain and fatigue. It seems that there are no days at all when you feel as well as you did when you were younger and pain free.
Yet, chronic illness is running rampant in our society today, given our aging population. There doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do about it for long either. When you get hit with a chronic illness, you will never completely get rid of it. But there are ways to mitigate the pain, fatigue and other debilitating features of the illness.
Many diseases are considered chronic illnesses. Here is a small list: heart disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, liver disease, colitis, and much more.
What makes these diseases chronic? One of the chief defining features of chronic illness, as opposed to acute illness, is that there is nothing that can be done to cure the disease. The only thing you can do is to minimize the negative effects of the illness.
This is what makes chronic illness so hard to cope with. With acute types of illnesses, you have a surgical procedure or take a few medications, and your life returns back to normal. But with chronic illness, you will never get back to normal.
However, the purpose of this e-book is not to dwell on the negative aspects of chronic illness. There are plenty of books on the market that do this already. Instead, I will argue that you can all live well with chronic illness by changing your mindset and acquiring a few healthy habits. I will show you how to do that in this e-book.
Irene S. Roth
Irene S. Roth, MA is an academic and freelance writer. She writes academically, for teens and tweens and adults. When she isn't writing, she is teaching. She is also pursuing a Master's of Social Work Degree.
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Living Well With Chronic Illness - Irene S. Roth
Living Well With Chronic Illness
Irene S. Roth
Copyright 2016 Irene S. Roth
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Habit 1: Practise Extreme Self-Care
Habit 2: Never, Ever Give Up!
Habit 3: Be Honest about How You’re Feeling
Habit 4: Do Whatever Works
Habit 5: Accept Your Fatigue
Habit 6: Accept your Pain
Habit 7: Live like a Child
Habit 8: Step Out of the Usual
Habit 9: Search for Silver Linings
Habit 10: Slow Down
Habit 11: Be Still
Habit 12: Meditate
Habit 13: Live in the Moment
Habit 14: Tame Self-Doubt
Habit 15: Be Grateful
Habit 16: Share Your Unique Gifts
Habit 17: Think Outside of the Box of Your Illness
Habit 18: Practise Mindfulness
Conclusion
About the Author
Introduction
It can be hard to live with any chronic illness. There are days of endless pain and fatigue. It seems that there are no days at all when you feel as well as you did when you were younger and pain free.
Yet, chronic illness is running rampant in our society today, given our aging population. There doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do about it for long either. When you get hit with a chronic illness, you will never completely get rid of it. But there are ways to mitigate the pain, fatigue and other debilitating features of the illness.
Many diseases are considered chronic illnesses. Here is a small list: heart disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, liver disease, colitis, and much more.
What makes these diseases chronic? One of the chief defining features of chronic illness, as opposed to acute illness, is that there is nothing that can be done to cure the disease. The only thing you can do is to minimize the negative effects of the illness.
This is what makes chronic illness so hard to cope with. With acute types of illnesses, you have a surgical procedure or take a few medications, and your life returns back to normal. But with chronic illness, you will never get back to normal.
However, the purpose of this e-book is not to dwell on the negative aspects of chronic illness. There are plenty of books on the market that do this already. Instead, I will argue that you can all live well with chronic illness by changing your mindset and acquiring a few healthy habits. I will show you how to do that in this e-book.
The purpose of this e-book is to save you from years of negative mindsets. Writing this book has been a process of self-discovery for me. I also suffer from several chronic conditions. For the first ten years after being diagnosed with arthritis, I was quite angry, upset, and unhappy because I felt like my life changed in what seemed like a flash. How can a 40