Addicited to Being Sick

Posted by: admin | on October 28, 2014

I had a older relative who always complained. She complained about her husband, her children, her lack of money and therefore, she was a miserable person. I was just a child but innocently thought that one day, and I was sure, soon she would find eternal happiness. I just assumed that people who complained wanted desperately something to change in their life, and they would somehow make the situation better. But sadly, my relative never found happiness and went to the grave a sad and lonely person. It took me years to realized, she was addicted to complaining. She didn’t want to find a solution. She loved the attention she received while complaining, the squeaky wheel. I leaned that there are just some people who like to WHINE! ”

The same thing happens to SOME people who have chronic diseases. They go to their doctors and complain about not feeling well, BUT then they don’t listen to what steps the doctor tells them to take or do not take their medicine as directed, etc. However, they come back to their doctor still complaining about not feeling better. Can you imagine the frustration the doctor feels?

I also see a lot of this on Facebook. The constant complaining on the chronic disease groups. They seem to be satisfied in complaining but never take sage advice from the group or from their doctors. For example; one tidbit of advice frequently espoused is to give up gluten. Autoimmune disease symptoms will be alleviated to a certain extent by eliminating gluten from a patient’s diet, however, this is an impossibility for many of the people in the group. Therefore, they find no relief and continue to complain. I call this ADDICTED TO BEING SICK! Of course there are people who SWEAR they are abstaining from gluten and still say they have debilitating symptoms. I know some personally that say they do but in actuality do not eliminate gluten 100% (yes, there is gluten in pizza crust). They think they can get by from only reducing gluten from their diet 50%, and so they complain it’s not working. Give up sugar? Impossible! Give up my nightly glass of wine? No way! Life is not worth living without ALCOHOL! Okay, point taken but don’t complain about your autoimmune disease.

My uncle was in the hospital a long time ago having just experienced a heart attack and the doctor told him that he was going to have to change his diet and give up salt. My uncle grumbled that life wouldn’t be worth living without salt and he wasn’t going to change his diet. What? He would rather die than give up salt? He ate as he wished and soon afterwards had another heart attack and passed away.

I recently saw a couple of friends that both have R.A. (rheumatoid arthritis). They are the same age (52) and female. Kate lived across the street from me when I was in high school, and Angela and I were good friends in our much younger days when we were both single and loved socializing at the local pubs. I remember clearly when Angela was diagnosed with crippling R.A. She had just gotten over strep throat and she got up one morning and the bottom of her feet hurt. This progressed quickly into aching joints and swollen fingers. Her doctor referred her to a rheumatologist who ran some blood tests and gave her the sad news, R.A. Angela suffered for years and was prescribed different powerful drugs with terrible side effects. We drifted apart as I moved away for my employment but I recall a mutual friend telling me that Angela had to soak in a hot tub each morning just to be able to move with a little less pain.

This past summer, I was visiting my mother’s home when I saw Kate across the street walking with a

R.A.

cane. I went over to say hi and was shocked at her physical condition. Her R.A. had progressed to the point that she was now no longer able to work and she looked 20 years older than her actual age. She complained about the ongoing pain and suffering. How horrible! However, when I met up with Angela later that same week I expected to see her in the same condition as Kate, but she amazingly looked like the picture of health! She also had a wonderful outlook about her health. What was Angela doing differently than Kate? Angela was eating simple and clean. What does that mean? That means no sugar, no gluten, easy on the carbohydrates, no alcohol, and she does it practically 100%. “Oh, I may have a couple of bites of birthday cake if I am at a party but it doesn’t really appeal to me,” said Angela.

Angela is off all medications and her lab tests are showing that her R.A. is in remission. I asked her if it happened overnight. “No, it was in small increments. I didn’t rush it. I let the process make small shifts in my health.”

She said that she had met with Kate (they went to high school together) to talk to her about cleaning up her diet but Kate was resistant and had given up the idea that she was ever going to get any better. She couldn’t believe that something as easy as eating a diet of no sugar or gluten was going to change anything. Kate was hooked on the idea that someday a prescription was going to be approved by the F.D.A. for R.A. and that was going to be her cure.

One noticeable difference between the two: Kate is whining about her disease and Angela is not. Kate is going with the flow (which is downhill) and Angela is proactive about her disease. Which would you rather be?

Terry Ryan

That has been my observation on Facebook. I took some months off from Facebook and was rather surprised to see that the people who were whining or complaining when I logged off were STILL whining/complaining when I got back on a few months later. What? Nothing had changed. I even had offered my Hashimoto’s Disease book for free to the FB groups and many had downloaded the book. Surprisingly, I think only a few people had actually read the book which goes into detail about the steps to take to “cure” your autoimmune disease. If they had, they would have a lot more knowledge about how to manage their disease. So, I have come to the conclusion, they are addicted to being sick.

Are you addicted to being sick or would you rather stop complaining and do something that has a positive affect? Here is some helpful links.

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