JustGotDiagnosed.com: Founded by Gary McClain -- Gary's blog
Gary's blog
Your middle name isn't God.
A medical diagnosis, and all the uncertainty around it, can leave you feeling out of control. Scary decisions to be made. Treatments with unfamiliar side effects. Emotions all over the place. Loved ones trying to micromanage your life, or running for the hills. And when humans feel out of control, they begin to fear what we all fear the most: helplessness. But consider this: we are not in control of what happens in our lives. Life happens as it happens. Trying to have control over everything is trying to play God, and that's a lose-lose p
What are you grateful for?
It’s only human nature to feel so challenged that life seems like one long, hard road. With nothing going right and everything going wrong.
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Get lost!
One of the best ways to deal with stress is to get lost. That is, to get lost inside of something that you enjoy doing.
Remind yourself that you are a work in progress.
Looking for another way to stress yourself out?
Blaming the victim
If you are a caregiver, it’s hard not to feel helpless when the person you are caring for has bad days. You don't know what to do and so you feel scared, as any human being would. But as a result, you may unintentionally slip into to “blaming the victim.”
Off to the beach.
Need to run away to gather your thoughts, calm your jangled nerves, and get back to your center? Maybe it’s time to escape to the beach!
No, you don’t have to take the nearest flight to Miami. No need to do all that traveling or wait that long. You can do it right now.
Hospitals and helplessness.
After suffering too long with a hand infection, I finally reported to an emergency room last week, and was immediately admitted to the hospital. I was quickly reminded of something that I tell my clients: being in a hospital is like entering into another culture, with different clothing, rules, language. You ae the patient and you are the outsider. It has been a long time since I felt this helpless. You wait, you worry, you put up with a lot of discomfort. Things happen on someone else's schedule. You have minimal choice about what you eat, if any.&
