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Old 03-09-2016, 05:40 PM
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This condition is tricky. Especially for people who have only recently been injured such as yourself, it's confusing, worrying and frustrating. With many people with pcs, the main enemy is anxiety. This can and will make your symptoms much, much worse. The symptoms are generally connected to your emotions. Stress can also bring on symptoms and slow down recovery. It may help you if you can learn some relaxation techniques, meditation is good, focusing on breathing and slowing your body down. Try not to get stressed and continuously worried. Your body may take some time to heal and you may have to make some adjustments in the mean time. Patience and remaining as calm as possible is key. Learning about what triggers symptoms (and ultimately going back to to the fear feeds symptoms-symptoms feed fear cycle) and learn work arounds or avoidance to speed recovery. If you can, audio books are good. Learning to enjoy slow and simple things is also good, but you must learn what these are.

You will improve, it may be a very slow process (I am very much improved after 15 months) but keep calm. Ask others for help, but don't ask them to join you in misery whilst you recover, they won't. The more roots you put in misery, the more you'll stay miserable. Know that you can beat this, know that you will improve and heal. All my best wishes in your recovery, it's a hard time, but don't give up.
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