Re: Identity and choosing to be healthy

It's OK Trick...I like that you spill out the facts on Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome and psychiatric treatment.

Truth to be told, I really don't like the way people group fatigue in the psychiatry illness. And push CBT (or whatever psychologcial therapies) as the remedy.

Though I certainly think positive attitude and thinking will help the whole healing process, it is not the magic cure. And yeah, no matter how much the funding goes into this thing, it won't heal the sufferers. It started on the wrong premises.

We have to be hopeful yet realistic. If the psychiatric things works, we don't have to eat all the supplements and do the detoxing stuff anymore. We don't have to go to dentists even. We need not to pace ourselves and rest more than other people.
Think about it, wouldn't it be easier and FAR MORE CHEAPER? It cost nothing to be healed and yeah, if you haven't been healed, you're not trying to be positive enough yet. (a.k.a. it's your fault, it's all in your mind).I think it is one of the LIES that has been forced on the fatigue sufferers.

So yeah, I am totally in for the positive attitude, but I am not buying into psychiatric treatment stuff. It helps if you have right attitude, it makes your life better, but it certainly not the magic cure for your illness. Simply because it deals wrongly with the illness.

One thing I realize is this: admitting you're not feeling well or sick DOESN'T make you a sick person. It helps you on your journey to recovery. You admit something is wrong to make it right. If you pretend everything is right (though the fact is not), how are you able to make it right? How will you encourage to find the right treatment? But having faith that you will get well, that you will be better, will certainly helps in your recovery.

This I write to encourage all of you, you will get better. It's OK to feel bad and feel sick, you know your body is telling you something is not right here. It happened so that you can start to walk the path of healing, to stop doing what is wrong and start doing what is right. You need to acknowledge the wrong and the consequences before you can correct it. You are not your sickness, you are not your pain. Ignore those who said that if you admit you're not feeling well it means you admit you are your sickness. It's not. (Try to apply that to every cancer patients, you will deemed crazy; but how come it's not the same for fatigue sufferer?)

So yeah Trick, I agree with you (though you change your mind later LOL). Just because you said so doesn't mean you're not positive enough. I am grateful for your post.