August 8th: Severe ME Awareness and Remembrance Day.

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Hi Everyone!

This is my small contribution to Severe ME Awareness and Remembrance Day: August 8th 2014.

Imagine a world where four walls are your only view,

Not just for the day but for years sometimes decades.

Imagine some days you felt so ill you couldn’t raise your head from your pillow.

And you can barely speak or see.

But doctors won’t believe you and worse still, if they do, they have nothing…absolutely nothing to help you.

How would you cope and what would you do?

Would you lay there and give up?

It would be understandable if you did.

If you curled into a ball and slowly let go of life.

Or would you fight it?

Would you beg for help, for someone to please help ease the pain and the suffering.

Imagine how scary and how strange it would be if no-one was listening.

That safety net we…
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - August 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs