In order to save some time I am going to list my disabilities. After a little "education" we can start to understand how this relates to doing it right the first time. While my disabilities may not be yours, understanding how they seemingly set up limits as to what we may do, I hope by the time I tackle each one individually, we will see that not only is that not true but we can, in some instances make it an advantage (I will give some of my personal experiences). Let me list my disabilities with a short explanation. 1. Bipolar Disorder(the politically correct name for Manic Depression). This is an inability, for the chemicals that keep normal people balanced, to set the normal limits of chemical production in thr brain. There's little to none of normal feedback balance in people with this condition(I also Include clinical depression in this catagory). 2. Anxiety Disorders, which can be some of the most crippling diseases one could suffer through. 3. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After experiencing extreme stresses, war, brutality in the home while raising children, near death experiences...etc. These stressors implant themselves in our subconcious minds just to torture us when facing a similar situation. 4. Ataxia and intention tremor. These two fit together since they both come from damage to the cerebellum. Ataxia is a loss of muscle coordination, resulting in a range of either mild(slight balance problems) to severe(inability to walk and worse. intention tremor occures when you can hold your hands out with no visible tremor, but when you try to use them they tremmor sometimes violently, resulting in an inability to write or feed ourselves without great effort and sometimes impossible. 5. Irritable bowell disorder. Very uncomfortable cramping of the intestins with some level of diahrea and constipation alternating. 6 Degenerative disc disease. it's just as it sounds, the discs in your spine develop bulges and fissuring with some bone spurs resting on the nerves. (ouch). That's the major disibilities I have, and I hope that as we discuss these things and find out how not to let them conquer us but think somewhat differently about not just these but other disabilities. What does this have to do with doing it right the first time. These things help to introduce a whole new way of viewing our limitations so they no longer stand in our way of accomplishing almost all that normal people can. Please feel free to leave comments, It may lead to further discussion and sometimes bring to light other ways, either you or a friend of yours may have found to cope.
Until next time Think Creatively.
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3 comments:
BIG D !!!
I totally love it so far!!
I wait anxiously thinking how this may help a number of people that feel soooo alone.
THANK YOU.....Deborah/LadyDM55
Deborah,
I hope the book will be helpful and wake some of us up.
It's amazing how much others can affect the recovery process.
Hello Derald. I just saw your page at traffic swarm
It is unusual for me to read an entire page. Kudos.
You are right on when you say that disabilities only describe physical conditions not a person's capabilities. Or something like that.
A quadriplegic friend of mine said every one is temporarily able. At any moment anyone can become dis-abled. A way of reminding everyone of our similarities.
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