Re: Self Care
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:30 pm
Sorry to hear that mbbaltic.
Yes Self care is vitally important - from a mental health as well as physical health point of view. My asthma is definitely stress induced. I always think I cope well with all the crap that has been thrown my way over the last few years but then when you realise that your hair is being lost at an alarming rate and your asthma cough is in overdrive and you wake in in the night with a racing heart until you control your breathing and bring it back down, THEN you have to admit that maybe, just maybe, you need to pay a bit of attention to yourself! Us women have a tendency to put everything down to menopause! Its not always that. I have got on top of things now. But it is a valuable lesson. We won't cope with the slow crash that is seemingly happening right now if our mental and physical health isn't ok. To cope with anything in life, you need to take care of yourself. Especially when we often find ourselves caring for others, the question always falls back to "who cares for the carers?" The answer can often be "ourselves."
We do need to look after ourselves otherwise what use will we be to others and ourselves?
Yes Self care is vitally important - from a mental health as well as physical health point of view. My asthma is definitely stress induced. I always think I cope well with all the crap that has been thrown my way over the last few years but then when you realise that your hair is being lost at an alarming rate and your asthma cough is in overdrive and you wake in in the night with a racing heart until you control your breathing and bring it back down, THEN you have to admit that maybe, just maybe, you need to pay a bit of attention to yourself! Us women have a tendency to put everything down to menopause! Its not always that. I have got on top of things now. But it is a valuable lesson. We won't cope with the slow crash that is seemingly happening right now if our mental and physical health isn't ok. To cope with anything in life, you need to take care of yourself. Especially when we often find ourselves caring for others, the question always falls back to "who cares for the carers?" The answer can often be "ourselves."
We do need to look after ourselves otherwise what use will we be to others and ourselves?