Having done the phone session which involved talking about my views on Fibro and what I hoped to achieve, goals I wanted to set, etc, I started the course properly on Tuesday.
After a' getting to know you' and ground rules setting, we were invited to name all the symptoms we suffered from and their impact on our lives. I ended up making the group laugh after looking at the white board smothered with words with the comment that if we were animals the vet would probably put us to sleep. Naughty of me but looking at that board with no space left to write anything more on it was very depressing. Next task was to fill in our pain charts, physically abilities....Can you climb a flight of stairs...our choices ranged from one to ten, one being it was easy to climb the stairs, ten being extremely difficulty. I had to go for ten :-( . Most of the questions were scored like that. Then we were told what subjects would be covered, exercise, sleep, relationships, employment, pain management, depression, and all that good stuff.
Our homework for the week to to try and absorb the information we took on board, write out our goals, however impossible they may be, what we think we are likely to achieve and what we are afraid of not achieving.
I think its good to have goals. There are many goals in life that people think cannot be achieved and we often prove them wrong so I think the same is true even when there is illness of some kind involved. We always need to strive for something. I hope your list went well.
ReplyDeleteI had major trouble with my goal setting. I finally got one sorted yesterday. I am to find 5 minutes a day to try and let my mind go blank and rest.
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