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Acceptance is Power

Autor admin | 01.03.2010 | Category Health

Are you in denial? Plenty of us are in denial of our disease so we carry on as if nothing is wrong. Why embracing your disease is the first step to a healthy life.

I learned to be the great pretender. I pretended I was okay, that I was normal. I learned to be creative and reinvented myself when some malady altered my physical appearance. Eventually, I woke up one morning and said, “You have lupus.” I finally told myself, “I am not normal.” I had to face the fact that I couldn’t be like everybody else and sometimes it’s just too much. It’s stressful trying to be what you are not and it wrecks havoc on your mental state. I am a productive ambitious person whose goals seem to be hampered by something I can’t control – my health.