Posted by Jane D on October 24, 2001, at 15:27:52
In reply to Re: Accepting that one is dependent on medication... » stjames, posted by Krazy Kat on October 24, 2001, at 9:25:18
> O.K., St. James, I'll bite - how do you accept an illness that can't be "proven"? An illness that can't be seen in an xray, or on a slide.
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> I am so literal, although also so ethereal (my two sides). My literal side has a real problem accepting it without seeing it. Comments such as "Are you sure it's not a placebo effect" re: the meds from my Dad run through my mind even though I try to stop them.
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> I don't really have faith in things, although I do have hope. Perhaps that's the problem?
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> - K., just thinking aloud
KK - I'll bite too. Let's add to that a case where drugs repeatedly stop working leaving you wondering if they ever did what you thought they did.-Jane (who, for today at least, believes again)
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