This is a copy of a post I wrote (Feb. 13, 2011)
that I believe everyone should read.
Mostly I hope it will help you understand someone
you know and/or love better.
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Just some random thoughts about
Infertility, and Mental Illness
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- Both are chronic physiological diseases
- Both may be treatable but are not curable
- Both may have positive or negative outcomes in treatment
- Both affect nearly everything in your daily life
- Both affect your daily decision making processes
- Both have huge negative social stigma's attached
- Both confuse, frighten and embarrass friends & family
- Both confuse, frighten and embarrass you
- Both are often suffered horribly in silence
- Both need so very much to be talked about
- Both continue to NOT be talked about much
- Both diseases are sorely misunderstood
- Both desperately need more education
- Both can strip a person of their identity
- Both almost always strip away your dignity
- Both may drag you in to a point where you lose yourself
- Both can and will make you second guess yourself
- Both can and will make you second guess your loved ones
- Both have destroyed viable, loving relationships
- Both can and have destroyed life-long dreams
- Both were suffered by people you once knew
- Both are being suffered by people you know right now
- Both are being suffered daily by those you love most
- Both may be suffered by you
- Both are suffered by me
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Suffering from these diseases is NOT the most difficult experience of my life
The most difficult & current painful experience of my life is this:
choosing to continue to live, learn, love, and move forward
DESPITE
all of the above.
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