Then your mom is lucky in more than one regard! Because of medical progress it is very different to be diagnosed with MS today than it was in 1973, when my mother had her first MS episode at the age of 27.
You wrote earlier that a lot of what you don’t like about your life is simply due to habits. Personally, I find the key to change is to persistently chip away at my mountain of bad habits (my main nemesis is procrastination) and to think more from day to day, to try to implement some (any!) positive difference in my life at a daily basis, and be it only to show a friendly face when you’re not really feeling like it, or to do that one more household chore you try to avoid, or to confront another uncomfortable truth about yourself and verbalize it to (well-chosen!) friends and acquaintances.
I know, these strategies are so basic they almost don’t qualify for Self-Help 101 but once you “really want to change” I found they work quite well.
You wrote earlier that a lot of what you don’t like about your life is simply due to habits.
Actually, what I said was that a lot of the activities I do (video games, blog commenting) are generally done because they’re what I’ve gotten used to spending time doing, not that the habits themselves are necessarily causing the problem.
Then your mom is lucky in more than one regard! Because of medical progress it is very different to be diagnosed with MS today than it was in 1973, when my mother had her first MS episode at the age of 27.
You wrote earlier that a lot of what you don’t like about your life is simply due to habits. Personally, I find the key to change is to persistently chip away at my mountain of bad habits (my main nemesis is procrastination) and to think more from day to day, to try to implement some (any!) positive difference in my life at a daily basis, and be it only to show a friendly face when you’re not really feeling like it, or to do that one more household chore you try to avoid, or to confront another uncomfortable truth about yourself and verbalize it to (well-chosen!) friends and acquaintances.
I know, these strategies are so basic they almost don’t qualify for Self-Help 101 but once you “really want to change” I found they work quite well.
Actually, what I said was that a lot of the activities I do (video games, blog commenting) are generally done because they’re what I’ve gotten used to spending time doing, not that the habits themselves are necessarily causing the problem.