GUIDELINES TO COPE WITH THE
EFFECTS OF DYSTONIA
1. Where do I come from?
Someone
once said: “The body and the mind are more than married – they are
intimately united, and when the one suffers, the other one sympathises”.
Your body
is your friend, or that is how you perceive your body without really
thinking about it. Your body is an integral part of who you are. If you want
to sense something, do something, achieve something you use your body. Your
body is the vehicle through which you live and interact with the world
around you. If something goes wrong with your body or it’s working then your
once faithful companion and friend becomes a stranger, even your enemy.
Since your
body and your mind is part of a unit, if something goes wrong with one part
of the unit then the other part is affected by those changes too. When your
body becomes your enemy then your mind reacts to it. Your mind perceives
these changes as a threat and will do various things in an attempt to combat
the enemy and to get the faithful and trusted friend back. Since this is not
possible you have to cope with the loss of a faithful friend and to cope
with loss is always emotionally pain full and very difficult.
The
conclusion that this brings us to is that deformity of your body is not
merely physical, it is also psychological (personal & emotional) and social.
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