Therapy For Chronic Conditions

Are you living with a chronic condition such as fibromyalgia?

Receiving a diagnosis and living with a long-term condition can be life changing. Nothing prepares you for it and we can only imagine how we might cope or react. Often it will affect your mood and how you feel in your body. This is the Mind and Body Connection.

Receiving a diagnosis is something you might have thought about previously when witnessing it in others or imagining the impact it would have should the same happen to you. This could be anything, as humans we naturally compare ourselves to others. Maybe that perceived reaction was that you would cope and adjust well. Reading this, you know that our imagined reality versus actual reality can be very different.

As time goes on the health condition can feel like it is taking over your life as you struggle day to day coping both emotionally, physically, and mentally. It can leave little room for anything else. People often are left feeling stressed, anxious, and low in mood.

This can result in a change in how you view and think about yourself. How you adapt to life following a diagnosis and the impact it’s going to have on your life isn’t always to see initially. Fear of the unknown is a scary place to be and how much you choose to share those feelings with those around you or even admit them to yourself varies.

Sometimes we don’t want to know very much as it can make us feel worse.

Living with a long-term health condition can feel like it’s taking over your life.

There is always going to be a period of adjustment once you receive a diagnosis and how you react will be different for everyone. There is no correct way to react. Much can depend on what is called the biopsychosocial model. Simply put this is the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors. It is the interplay of your genetic makeup, mental health and social and cultural experiences. Your status and role within your family and social environment matter too, especially if you are already a caregiver and someone who other people turn to for support. Living with a long-term health condition can feel like it’s taking over your life. Consuming your thoughts and perhaps restricting your activities. Sometimes we can deny the thoughts, shutting them away because the pain of dealing with them is too much. This brings its own problems because denial does not stop what is happening to you. As the Mind-Body Guide my aim is to explore these connections between the physical, mental, and relational. To help you gain insight and awareness. This could be looking at present problems or those that are more deeply seated events that have affected you in the. Past. The things that you have been told and experienced which have shaped who you are now. My approach to therapy is to help you understand yourself mentally and physically. Then you can start moving forward at a pace that respects the whole of you.

The Mind-Body Guide
Therapy for the whole of you

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