I became disabled. Now I feel useless & depressed. Is this normal?
First, I'm sorry you got such large lies and cruel answers to your question. (I've reported them.) Second, the first thing I did when it slowly dawned on me that I would be living in chronic pain the rest of my life was to read books that taught me how to live with chronic pain. I can give you the shortened-condensed version--occupy your mind with something that makes you think past yourself. (I read five books to get all that. lol) Not a hobby as much as a lifestyle change. No, anxiety isn't a natural outcome of learning all you learned about what's wrong with you. That's the natural outcome of focusing on what's physically wrong with you. So is depression. Occupying your brain does something pretty cool. It lowers pain levels--both physical and mental pain. Pick something you can do that occupies your brain. That can be anything from taking courses (and some are offered for free online), to donate your abilities to a charity (sounds impossible if you're stuck in bed, but I've helped a charity online, whose mission was to collect information on other charities as a one-stop location to find the others, by contacting all the charities on their site to see if they were still around and see what they'd like updated on what they do, so it is possible, even stuck in bed), or decide to learn something that can help you make money and then do that, (creating a website, and then getting it on the top of the SERPs--search engine result pages--can make you residual money through renting ad space, or you can go for what I'm doing--writing a novel knowing it will take me years to make it publishable, but once there, I can make roughly a $3000 advance, and, if I promote it well enough, it can give me royalties.) Yes, learning your planned life disappeared is depressing. Being in pain and steadily getting weaker is depressing. You can feel depressed and anxious for the rest of your long life or you can do something to redefine your life, so it's not depressing. It's entirely up to you where you want to go from here. One thing being weak and in pain affords us that most people never get--time to figure out how to make time work for us, not the other way around.
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Engagement ring, future sister in law ... I'm confused?
******* Thanks for all the great answers! After thinking about it, it's all just silly. I didn't want to believe that she was actually being that catty. But since you all are on pretty much the same page I can see it now. You're all right about the wedding planning issue, she has already chosen a date that was 2 weeks before mine for her wedding so we moved our date a few months further out. I'm not going to include her in any wedding plans & no thank God she's not in my bridal party. I don't really care about the wedding anyway so she can have her fancy wedding haha. I do care about the honeymoon! Anyway I just wrote her back & told her Congrats & that I thought her ring was lovely & that she has great tastes ;) haha
Ideas for $50 bridesmaid gift?
Hello! You do not have to get them wedding jewelry. I wanted my girls to wear a pearl necklace during the wedding. My MOH and one other bridesmaid already had a set. So, I bought the other bridesmaids a set from overstock.com for pretty reasonable. Here's some that are sold in a set of three (includes necklace and earrings): http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches... Then I also bought notecards from Target with their initials - really cute. You could get them nail polish or eyeshadow to wear at the wedding, I paid $20 ea. for them to have their eyes done in the salon prior to the wedding. http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Lancome-COLOR-DE... You could get them some cute flip flops to throw on at the reception. Or a picture frame for a picture you'll take at the wedding. Or you could make a little bath set: small bottle of travel perfume, candles, bubble bath, loofa, a nice bottle of shampoo (because who enjoys buying $20 bottles for yourself?)... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie... http://cgi.ebay.com/3-SLEEP-LAVENDER-VANILLA-Bubble-Dream-Bath-Body-Works_W0QQitemZ290410699099QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item439dd3995b Or if you wanted to just get one item that's around $50 - maybe a normal size bottle of perfume, a cute purse, a nicer picture frame, a vase, or a really cute piece of costume jewelry. I find that buying things in bulk is usually cheaper!
Fiance too involved in wedding planning?
My fiance is way too involved in our wedding planning. I don’t do things I don’t want to but he can definitely be controlling. I don’t normally like being the center of attention but let’s be honest the wedding day is all about the BRIDE…what she’s wearing, her hair, her makeup, flowers…and I’m looking forward to that for once. (I’m not saying it’s not an important day for the groom) I might have the opposite of some women but I need to let him know to back off and let me do the planning. Any suggestions or past experiences that might help?