Posted by deniseuk190466 on January 5, 2007, at 11:54:21
In reply to Re: Just one person's opinion, posted by UgottaHaveHope on January 3, 2007, at 18:03:38
U Gotta Have Hope,
Thanks for your encouragement. I just know that ultimately it's not the Doctors fault, they don't have that magic pill and basically they are only as good as the medications that they presribe.
What they can be (to help) though, is supportive, encouraging, sympathetic and they could manage to say the right words, like "You will get better", "there is something out there". This Professor gave me none of that, all he gave me were negative responses (some might say realistic???) which is that this contradicts his theories on negative thinking and how they control feelings. Like when he said why didn't I just accept I was never going to get any better than I was, I said to him well "what about positive thinking". Then is he advocating realistic, posivite thinking and am I in an unrealistic, positive thinking mode.?
He even seemed to decry me for going to Vancouver to try out rTMS but even though it didn't work, I don't feel negative about the experience. I wasn't too bad at the time so I sort of enjoyed the trip and I made the most out of the shops and sight seeing etc. So here I am trying to be positive about that and he turns it into something negative! Again this doesn't make sense as he advocates positive thinking and yet doesn't seem to dish it out himself!
I mean should I be thinking "I'm never going to get better but I should just try and make the most of it" Is that what I should think. Or "Well I feel awful and sick and crap, I don't know why but I should just accept that and get on with it"
I do try and think like the above but I also think "I just have to get on with it but in the meantime I have to keep searching for something that might work"
God I'm confused.
Denise
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