Talking About Medical Crap

This morning I briefly had the opportunity to read a wonderful blog post about why the writer writes about her medical issues. It was a great post that clearly spoke about all the issues us ' less than healthy ' people have in our lives. Now I can ' t find the link to it but it definitely spoke to me. So here are my thoughts on this, in a less well written post.I talk about my health issues because there is no reason not to. I am not going to be job searching again so I don ' t need to worry that a potential future employer would learn how unhealthy I am and therefore choose to never hire me. There is no way I am every going to be able to work full time again. So that is one of the big reasons people don ' t talk about their health - it could prevent them from being hired at some point in the future.But the biggest reason I do talk (and write) about my health is that it is a big coping mechanism for me. Yes, talk therapy. Its a wonderful thing. Its the reason support groups, on line groups, and all that other stuff exist. So I am not the first person to come up with this.Also, there is that little evil voice in my head that pops up every so often that says ' I HAVE SEVERAL CHRONIC DISEASES SO THE FUTURE ISN ' T THAT ROSY ' . I think if I keep talking about it and my limitations I might get more comfortable with talking about it and stressing and depressing less. Although life can be made better through chemistry (read: anti-depressants), it would be even better if there were ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: communication health issues unhealthiness Source Type: blogs