Does Illness Depress You?

Do you get depressed when you are sick?

I find sickness hard to deal with. I can think of nothing else but my symptoms when I am ill. And in a very short time I get depressed! Does that happen to you?

And the trouble is that when I am sick, I am too sick to do all of my self-talk strategies. The illness becomes all-consuming. I become obsessed. I imagine that I am even sicker than I really am. Do you do that?

Let's face it. With mental illness comes irrational thinking and lopsided perspective. You can't trust your thoughts.

I have been sick this past week with acid reflux. This has been my first time to experience this unpleasant condition. I am relieved that is all it is. I had imagined gall bladder and surgery, or worse.

The only thing that works for me when I get sick this way is to get to the doctor before I have a chance to get ridiculously obsessed about it all. Of course I always wait a couple of days in hopes that the symptoms will go away as mysteriously as they came. But oh the relief when I get a simple diagnosis with simple solution.

So, the next time I am sick, I hope I can remember this and get to the doctor quickly.

How about you? How do you handle illness?

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May Dipsy Doodling Around Depression be better than a therapy session!

Don't give up, I'm praying for you!

Wendy Love