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Originally Posted by Jennifer 1967
My regular doctor was out of the office when I was sick so I saw a Dr. Smith. Man, is he on the ball! I had a urine sample for diabetes check and by the time I was in line at Sonic 5 minutes later, they had called and said I had a UTI and had called in Cipro. He’s been like this with every test. He read my stress test at 5:18 and passed on the results. Every test looks good. I’m healthy. I’m so relieved. That leaves stress/anxiety but I’ll let him tell me tomorrow what his diagnosis is. I’d like to change doctors. I do understand that stress can kill as surely as anything and I need to get it under control. This was eye opening for me. Doing a happy dance that I’m healthy.
About to go into a Zoom meeting.
Hugs to all.  |
Hope your Zoom meeting was good. I am not feeling so well, so I looked into the forum and found your post. You wrote one sentence that made me want to answer you instead of writing about my own problems. That sentence is this one:
"I do understand that stress can kill as surely as anything and I need to get it under control. "
May be I misread you, but you cannot control stress. The best way you can relate to stress is to take a good look at your life and see what has to change. After making a decision about changes, you have to sit down and make a plan for how to make those changes, step by step. You so often talk about moving out. How do you actively do that (if that is what you still want)?
The next is to learn relaxation techniques that you can use when a stressful event occurs. Then get enough sleep, physical exercise, healthy food and some good and
healthy relations with other people.
In short: You have to give up one sort of life style to build another ... How will you do that? (And Jennifer, for God's sake, please stop using Ritalin. Ritalin is for ADHD and not for people with bipolar disorder. Google it).
