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Living with and Managing Your Serious Health Issues (part 3)

Discussion started by Adam Rangihana 8 years ago

 

 

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Living with and Managing Your Serious Health Issues (part 3)

 

How head injuries can affect people...

 

Where does understanding health begin for me…

In my early twenties I fell 3 stories head first into a concrete floor.

 

As stated before, with all people who have suffered major health issues I have had a unique journey in my life which includes all types of abuse, health problems a major head injury.  All of which has brought me to an understanding of health in a specific way which I wish to share in hopes that it may help you to reconsider how you may understand what health means to you.

 

And may I say I do not wish to take away from anyone their pain and suffering and the story of their journey but nor will I take away from my own sense of self the journey of my own soul and the pain and suffering that is rightfully mine to own.

My Story continued...

 

Sometimes I found for myself and others that talking about certain issues helps to reconnect the person with memories and the sense of themselves.  In some cases it is from a moral perspective but can also be from memories of the past ...

 

There are some things that are better not to be brought into the light of public spectacle in any such manner that would agitate the continued turbulence and sorrows that all who have been under the shadow of head injuries, chronic pain, abuse and all other similar diseases which are such an affliction as to torment their sufferers..  

 

Like others who have experience of that suffering and carry many of the sorrows that attest to such pains.  These sorrows which never leave and have in fact become a part of me but is not who I am.  I wish sometimes that I had the opportunity to rest from these happenings, but since I cannot change what is I now after many years feel I have made some sense of reconciliation with that which is part of the core of my life experience.

 

It maybe at the present turn such sorrow should in the minds of  those who have not the knowledge, insight or disposition be to much of an encumbrance and may feel akin to or  like the long dead and forgotten city state of ancient Sparta.  

 

460 -- 370 BC Hippocrates Writings show concern for children and a separation of their illnesses from those of adults. According to Hippocrates, a person's health involved the relationship of four humors: blood (heart), phlegm (liver), yellow bile (spleen) and black bile (brain). He believed that epilepsy had a "natural cause." He believed that nature was the great healer: rest, good diet, fresh air, cleanliness. He was one of the first physicians to believe that thoughts, ideas, and feelings come from the brain and not the heart. He moved medicine into humans' hands instead of the gods. He rejected the view that illnesses and disabilities were caused by possession of evil spirits or disfavor of the gods

 

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