My Health

Struggling with my physical health right now, not feeling well and to make it worse mentally I feel like rubbish. Phoned my mental health team this morning and spoke to Kelly who clearly couldn't care less about me and my situation. The call was only a few minutes. She asked what I normally do when I feel low and I said sometimes listen to music and she said okay I'll leave you to do that, hung up.

It's really frustrating when the people who are meant to help you don't want to help at all and don't care. I have a cancer nurse and team but some of my problems aren't related to that so I can't call them about this. 

Feel so disappointed and alone.

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  • Well it makes sense that your physical health will affect your mental and emotional health, because they are all connected in the body's system.

    I think that support teams are likely trained to not suggest advice to patrons because of legal reasons (so they don't get sued for giving advice to someone that doesn't work for them and made the person feel even worse than they did before), so they mirror your own question back at you, and ask you "what do you usually do when..." (insert problem here), and then when you respond, that's the answer, then they think "problem solved" and then they hang up the phone on you. 

    There's very little that can replace the nurturing support of a caregiver,  that is not given to you when you're expected to be old enough to support yourself, but we are all human beings, and without nurturing support, we all feel alone. But nurturing support is what heals people, and so many people are looking for it, for someone who just cares about them.

    I think that yes, music is healing. I heard that the purring sounds that cats make can heal their bones. I mean some interesting things about sound, is that each sound can create a certain geometric shape, it's called "cymatics" or "sand sound vibration," and they take on a shape very similar to snowflake shapes or chakra symbols. Also in a book "The Hidden Messages of Water" were experiments, like saying "thank you" versus "I want to kill you" and looking at the water structure after a period of time, and the "thank you" was a nice snowflake-like structure, and the "I want to kill you" was unstructured and gross looking. I think that sound, thoughts, emotions, visuals, are all frequencies that can affect the body in positive or negative ways. So things like sound and affirmations are actually very helpful to the body. 

  • Yeah your totally right in everything you say, especially about needing nurturing support. I've found in my life and my own experiences that a lot of people say they care and understand whereas in reality they really don't, which I find upsetting and hurtful. Makes me feel like I don't want to be here, though that's a weird thought as I'm supposed to be dead in the next 6 months anyway. Guess it doesn't effect you feeling suicidal.

    I also heard that cats purring can be soothing for people. I don't have a cat unfortunately, but I see you can look up cats purring on YouTube so I might give that a try as well.

    Thank you for your reply. I really do appreciate your time. Thanks. Slight smile

  • The thing is, even if you're told you have (this many months or years) to live by doctors, they don't know the future in complete certainty, but they are just making predictions based on the research and patterns they've seen from the past from people with the same condition.

    Think about Stephen Hawking, his condition showed up in his 20s, and most doctors would have given him a few years to live, but he lived until he was 76 years old!

    There's also a man who is in an "iron lung," named Paul Alexander. He contracted polio at aged 6, and couldn't breathe. The doctors were going to give up on him, but one doctor didn't, and rushed to have an emergency surgery to save his life. I mean he's confined in this huge iron lung machine, but he fought to make his dreams come true, even when everyone said he could not do it. He fought hard to become a lawyer! He uses a stick in his mouth to read books, and has even typed his own book using that method. He's in his 70s right now.

    I mean doctors will make predictions, but it's still your life, and you still have potential to do many things. 

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  • The thing is, even if you're told you have (this many months or years) to live by doctors, they don't know the future in complete certainty, but they are just making predictions based on the research and patterns they've seen from the past from people with the same condition.

    Think about Stephen Hawking, his condition showed up in his 20s, and most doctors would have given him a few years to live, but he lived until he was 76 years old!

    There's also a man who is in an "iron lung," named Paul Alexander. He contracted polio at aged 6, and couldn't breathe. The doctors were going to give up on him, but one doctor didn't, and rushed to have an emergency surgery to save his life. I mean he's confined in this huge iron lung machine, but he fought to make his dreams come true, even when everyone said he could not do it. He fought hard to become a lawyer! He uses a stick in his mouth to read books, and has even typed his own book using that method. He's in his 70s right now.

    I mean doctors will make predictions, but it's still your life, and you still have potential to do many things. 

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