Need to stop blaming ourselves

I have read many books on spiritual healing including the posts here and I get quite disturbed by the undertone that when you are sick it’s your own fault. Do you know how much pressure that puts on someone who is chronically ill? There is too much pointing the finger with this belief that you created your own disease. You cannot tell me that all CIDS and MCS people all have emotional problems. In fact, these people are usually strong minded individuals who are so willing to get better. The suicide rate is very low in CIDs and MCS people because of this. They do not have emotional problems to begin with they may end up being sad- not depressed- because their life is so debilitating.

There is something about disease that shifts the blame to the victims, if it is acknowledged at all. We are deemed by some to be constitutionally weak or hypertensive; often we are labelled as being malingerers. To some we might appear to be alarmists or chemophobic. This is despite the fact that most of us with environmental illness are intelligent people who have lived busy and successful lives before our illness and want nothing more than our health restored. No-one has yet explained to me why we would enjoy having to drop out of society as we know it and turn our lives upside down in order to ensure our survival.

I have done NLP, kinesiology, visual imagery etc and it changed nothing. I can hear the cogs turning now and you are probably thinking that I haven’t finished my spiritual cleansing work. Well I am here to tell you that I have; I have nothing to left to give and I am so tired of being blamed for being sick or being accused of being a failure because I can’t get myself better.


Nat
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