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    Living Well With Chronic Illness
    Living Well With Chronic Illness
    Living Well With Chronic Illness
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    Living Well With Chronic Illness

    By Irene S. Roth

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    It can be hard to live with any chronic illness. There are days of endless pain and fatigue. It seems that there are no days at all when you feel as well as you did when you were younger and pain free.

    Yet, chronic illness is running rampant in our society today, given our aging population. There doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do about it for long either. When you get hit with a chronic illness, you will never completely get rid of it. But there are ways to mitigate the pain, fatigue and other debilitating features of the illness.

    Many diseases are considered chronic illnesses. Here is a small list: heart disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, liver disease, colitis, and much more.

    What makes these diseases chronic? One of the chief defining features of chronic illness, as opposed to acute illness, is that there is nothing that can be done to cure the disease. The only thing you can do is to minimize the negative effects of the illness.

    This is what makes chronic illness so hard to cope with. With acute types of illnesses, you have a surgical procedure or take a few medications, and your life returns back to normal. But with chronic illness, you will never get back to normal.

    However, the purpose of this e-book is not to dwell on the negative aspects of chronic illness. There are plenty of books on the market that do this already. Instead, I will argue that you can all live well with chronic illness by changing your mindset and acquiring a few healthy habits. I will show you how to do that in this e-book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIrene S. Roth
    Release dateDec 12, 2016
    ISBN9781370132249
    Living Well With Chronic Illness
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    Irene S. Roth

    Irene S. Roth, MA is an academic and freelance writer. She writes academically, for teens and tweens and adults. When she isn't writing, she is teaching. She is also pursuing a Master's of Social Work Degree.

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      Living Well With Chronic Illness - Irene S. Roth

      Living Well With Chronic Illness

      Irene S. Roth

      Copyright 2016 Irene S. Roth

      http://www.howtomanageyourarthritus.com

      License Notes. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with someone else, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Habit 1: Practise Extreme Self-Care

      Habit 2: Never, Ever Give Up!

      Habit 3: Be Honest about How You’re Feeling

      Habit 4: Do Whatever Works

      Habit 5: Accept Your Fatigue

      Habit 6: Accept your Pain

      Habit 7: Live like a Child

      Habit 8: Step Out of the Usual

      Habit 9: Search for Silver Linings

      Habit 10: Slow Down

      Habit 11: Be Still

      Habit 12: Meditate

      Habit 13: Live in the Moment

      Habit 14: Tame Self-Doubt

      Habit 15: Be Grateful

      Habit 16: Share Your Unique Gifts

      Habit 17: Think Outside of the Box of Your Illness

      Habit 18: Practise Mindfulness

      Conclusion

      About the Author

      Introduction

      It can be hard to live with any chronic illness. There are days of endless pain and fatigue. It seems that there are no days at all when you feel as well as you did when you were younger and pain free.

      Yet, chronic illness is running rampant in our society today, given our aging population. There doesn’t seem to be a lot you can do about it for long either. When you get hit with a chronic illness, you will never completely get rid of it. But there are ways to mitigate the pain, fatigue and other debilitating features of the illness.

      Many diseases are considered chronic illnesses. Here is a small list: heart disease, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, liver disease, colitis, and much more.

      What makes these diseases chronic? One of the chief defining features of chronic illness, as opposed to acute illness, is that there is nothing that can be done to cure the disease. The only thing you can do is to minimize the negative effects of the illness.

      This is what makes chronic illness so hard to cope with. With acute types of illnesses, you have a surgical procedure or take a few medications, and your life returns back to normal. But with chronic illness, you will never get back to normal.

      However, the purpose of this e-book is not to dwell on the negative aspects of chronic illness. There are plenty of books on the market that do this already. Instead, I will argue that you can all live well with chronic illness by changing your mindset and acquiring a few healthy habits. I will show you how to do that in this e-book.

      The purpose of this e-book is to save you from years of negative mindsets. Writing this book has been a process of self-discovery for me. I also suffer from several chronic conditions. For the first ten years after being diagnosed with arthritis, I was quite angry, upset, and unhappy because I felt like my life changed in what seemed like a flash. How can a 40

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