"“Should” statements imply #guilt ..Question the validity of “should” statements..#Reframe the “should.” The word “should” can be replaced with things like, “I want to” or “I get to" or can be eliminated completely.": buff.ly/T63X18Z via PositivePsychology #CognitiveDistortion #MentalHealth #should

"Autism is a #neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people’s #brains develop & function..Having an “odd gait” is now listed in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of #MentalDisorders as a supporting diagnostic feature of #autism.": buff.ly/9hOmC9x via theconversation.com #walking

" #StrengthTraining has given me so many benefits, and I love it because you can easily make it #accessible, and it’s one of the few forms of #exercise that my #disability doesn’t prevent me from doing well.": buff.ly/dgw96mM by myrockindisabledlife #ChronicPain

"You are not overreacting. You’re reacting appropriately to a world that isn’t built with us in mind..... You’re not lazy, dramatic, or too sensitive. You’re just managing life on hard mode.": buff.ly/KCxIIuI by @unremarkableme.bsky.social #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #spoonies #disability #EDS

"It is a silly & #ViciousCycle, because it isn’t my fault & beating myself up about it is only going to turn the #BadDay into a worse one. It also sets up the framework of how I will be approaching the rest of my day, whether I’m #aware of it or not.": buff.ly/bc3vczU #ChronicPain #MentalHealth

"By noticing #joy, we become, over time, less sensitive to threat. By noticing what is, we become less attuned to the #anxiety and the dread of what might be.": buff.ly/wb0k6Cy by CarolynSpring #traumatic #MentalHealth #mindfulness

" #Yoga can be used therapeutically – not in the way u might be imagining. I’m talking the four tools: Gentle #stretching, #RestorativeYoga (a type of passive stretching that is very relaxing), breath work & #meditation.": buff.ly/lzQvVlX by @carriekellenberger.bsky.social #PainManagement

"The #DisabilityJustice movement teaches us that no1 is disposable. It reminds us that care work is real #work. That systems fail but #people, together, can choose to do better.": substack.com/home/post/p-... by @likecyndii.bsky.social #humanity #disability

"Communicate with other people, you’ll learn a thing or two from them about life. Educate yourself through any means, it will give you extra tools to deal with life’s #problems.": buff.ly/RCIbDN5 #spoonie #ProblemSolving #communicate #SelfAwareness

"What if we stopped #hiding? What if we said, loudly & proudly, this is who we are & we ARE #suffering. We’re in #pain. We’re scared. We’re exhausted. Look at us. Don’t look away.": buff.ly/US8fw1g by @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social #InvisibleIllness #ChronicPain

"But you are not a #productivity machine. You are a #human with limits—and honoring those #limits is how you adapt, not how you “give up.” Part of effective #ChronicIllness management means unlearning the belief that rest is selfish or lazy.": buff.ly/Hn3zTsM #resting by @thethrivingspoonie.com

"Every #mask examined..leached #microplastics, but it was the FFP2 & FFP3 #masks – marketed as the gold-standard protection against the transmission of the #virus – that leached the most, releasing 4 to 6 times as many.": buff.ly/XsOQilt via @theguardian.com #PublicHealth #COVID

"I've observed how people with chronic conditions struggle with impossible choices: push through symptoms to meet social #expectations (often worsening their #health), or face accusations of "using #illness as a crutch."": buff.ly/Ftrc0R5 by @remotetherapy.space #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid

CW: #suicide . "He continued that there simply were no signs of trouble & Colin seemed “so happy.” I consoled him, “It isn’t always obvious. Perhaps he was happy for your good company despite his ongoing #struggles.”": buff.ly/vRPowZ4 via @psychologytoday.com #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth

"According to #KKH, the CPMC is the first and currently only interdisciplinary #children’s #PainManagement clinic in #Singapore and the region. Since its launch in 2005, the team has seen an increasing number of patients.": buff.ly/3tYVyEI via @channelnewsasia.bsky.social #parenting

"My belief is that the antidote to this #AI slop (as some have been calling it) is that we’re endlessly eccentric, each #human being #communicating and manifesting in unique fashions.": buff.ly/gOTrBxQ via @janefriedman.com #creativity #humanity

" #Parents are probably the biggest influencers in the lives of their #children ..What you eat, where you eat, the quantity and timing of consumption as a #family matters, and can set #habits and patterns for life.": buff.ly/hLCaHD7 via SpectraSpray #HealthyEating

"People who are new to #ChronicPain sometimes get a false idea that #medication cures you because #doctors don’t always clearly explain that #PainMedication only gets your pain to a level you can function.": buff.ly/YYJIMea #ChronicIllness by MyRockinDisabledLife

"It’s called the 5-4-3-2-1 #grounding technique. And no, it doesn’t fix everything. But it helps me #breathe. It helps me pause. It reminds me that I’m safe, that I’m here, and that this feeling will pass.": buff.ly/cYCJSCH by FlareFlourish #PanicAttack #AnxietySupport #MentalHealth

"These [ #resilience] strategies ensure that I don’t stagnate on the #BadDays, and radiate on the good ones. They help me to stay robust while facing #challenges, and to regenerate faster when knocked down.": buff.ly/8ILp2n7 #recovery #ChronicIllness

"When I became a #mother, I was a productivity-focused graduate student who used her busyness to ignore a fundamental #truth: life is, in its basic nature, unpredictable. So is the experience of bearing it.": buff.ly/UJSLTrk via @plough.bsky.social #LifeLessons #parenting #disability

"chasing a #cure became a #FullTimeJob ..that offered no guarantees & constantly reminded me of my failures when my body didn’t respond the way I wanted it to..I began to lose touch with the life I was living in the meantime.": buff.ly/S0sVpZJ by MarysChronicLife #spoonie #ChronicIllness #NEisVoid

"There is a weird phenomenon in the world of the #ChronicallyIll. It is the place of the in between. A place between too #sick to function and not sick enough to get #support.": buff.ly/MCLM3di by @SunbeamAcres #InvisibleIllness #NEisVoid

"Loving someone with a #ChronicIllness can be #challenging, but it is also an incredibly #rewarding experience. Seeing your loved one overcome the obstacles of their chronic illness is an amazing feeling.": buff.ly/sv740Ia #caregiving #disability

"We do not perceive the world as it is, we perceive it as we are. Our truths are not mirrors of #objective reality, but prisms refracting it through #culture, #psychology, and #emotion.": buff.ly/qrSnevm via kevinmd #perception

" #Fun was another one. I hadn’t realized how much #joy energizes me until I deliberately added something #playful to my week: a silly movie, a nostalgic playlist, five minutes of doodling. Tiny things, huge shift.": buff.ly/MWaAcEA #MentalHealthMatters #ChronicIllness by @thethrivingspoonie.com

"Non-disabled people sometimes think that everything a #disabled person does revolves around their #disability and it’s so important that we teach people that we have interests that have nothing to do with our disability.": buff.ly/efJxtTQ by MyRockinDisabledLife #ChronicIllness #blogger #spoonie

“Nevertheless, some #DisabledPeople live a very #ActiveLife, going out to work, socialising, travelling around the country & abroad to name a few. It just takes more effort and organisation.”: buff.ly/BmuG3Jy by @hannahedeakin.bsky.social #DisabilityAwareness #disability #ChronicIllness

"Skin-related manifestations are common & may be the 1st signs of #APS. 40% of APS pts who hv #cutaneous manifestations go on to develop multisystemic #thrombotic events which underscores the need to be extra vigilant" buff.ly/XofExpO @achronicvoice.com #AntiphospholipidSyndrome

“The books below cover #fibromyalgia, #POTS, #MCAS and #migraine, as well as low histamine cooking and general care for those with #ChronicIllness, and are all easy to read, and packed full of useful information.”: buff.ly/23NtDv8 by @lowhistamine.bsky.social

"Every ’80s kid knew how to read a physical map & give clear #directions ...Getting lost occasionally was part of the #LearningProcess, and it taught them to think spatially and solve #navigation problems creatively.": buff.ly/R6tUWbL #ProblemSolving #LifeSkills via NewTraderU

"As a #ChronicIllness patient we take so many #medications, and each have the potential to interact with the other. A straightforward #treatment for a healthy person is always complicated for us.": buff.ly/XwIPtB8 #MondayBlogs #NEIsVoid

"Many people develop #HPV at some point during their lives without even knowing it. The #ImmuneSystem usually rids the body of HPV within a year or two with no lasting damage.": buff.ly/UXfCjIQ via @upmc.com #HumanPapillomavirus #SexualHealth #STI

"I’d already had a feeling yesterday that I wasn’t headed in the right direction. My #body had that warning hum — the 1 I’ve learned not to ignore, but also not to overreact to too quickly. I didn’t want to #cancel. I’d waited too long for this": buff.ly/11ymZ8U #ChronicPain via SickHumorSupplyCo

"I’ve been fortunate enough to have had #relationships with partners from extreme ends of the spectrum. It gives me insight into different #perspectives, which enables me to identify and appreciate certain characteristics better.": buff.ly/996ziEK #values #ChronicIllness #MondayBlogs

"we can & should be better prepared. But it seems the lessons learned weren’t quite the ones we hoped for. And I do hope there won’t be a next time, because I’m not confident we’re truly ready.": buff.ly/OagdQZB via UN #COVID19 #pandemic #healthcare #doctors #PublicHealth

"Respect Privacy & #Boundaries: You don’t need anyone’s permission to write your #story except your own but ask yourself if it’s your story to tell." (Unleashing the #Healing Power of #Empathy Through Storytelling): buff.ly/mojPgZG by @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social #memoir

"No one really talks about what it is to be a #disabled #woman, especially a young one. To go through something transformative before you can drink legally. To experience pain or exhaustion or to feel 92.": buff.ly/QYFXhz5 via @theguardian #ChronicPain #YoungAdult #spoonie

"The mathematics of #pain is complex & exhausting. & u do these calculations silently, behind a face carefully composed to show nothing..The effort it takes to appear "normal" when in pain is itself an extraordinary act of #strength.": buff.ly/p0qvmlz #ChronicPain #spoonie by @remotetherapy.space

"An unintended benefit was that I learned a lot about #ChronicIllnesses other than my own [from #blogging & reading other blogs]. You will also make a blogger’s day, simply because you read, commented &/or shared a post they wrote.": buff.ly/rUMOAjQ #MondayBlogs #spoonies #surgery

"The team found that 50% of the #creators of the most popular #videos were directly soliciting donations or selling products or services, such as fidget spinners, workbooks or coaching services.": buff.ly/ojaHi8e via @sciam.bsky.social #ADHD #neurodiversity #influencers

"In each of my 3 #novels, I’ve also made space for a #healer who provides an intimate #human #connection that helps lead my #protagonists toward a path of integration. That way, our work can..both instruct & entertain.": buff.ly/l4le1vP by jhermankleiger

“But #trauma reverts us to our back #brains and keeps us firmly stuck there. The very tool we need to get ourselves out of trauma – our neocortex, and specifically our frontal lobes – is shut down by trauma itself. Catch-22.”: buff.ly/id8lU3y by CarolynSpring #traumatic #brain #emotions

"Men’s and women’s dreams seem to be similar in #emotional content. Every time a man #dreams, even if the content isn’t sexual, he has an erection; in women, blood vessels in the vagina are engorged.": buff.ly/4n5Ch6t via NationalGeographic #sleep #men #women

"He also said he was shocked to find that bad #disease when I had so few symptoms..Then I realised they didn’t have all my #symptoms down, because I’d already had my symptoms #diagnosed as other things.": buff.ly/Oet2QVf by LauraChamberlain #endometriosis #ChronicIllness

"saying yes to a marathon visit to bookstores..or a voyage..is a way of reclaiming some of the stolen #joy #illness snatches away. I do so despite knowing the heavy price to pay for these small snippets of #normality.": buff.ly/Puz81fs by @serenebutterfly.bsky.social #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness

“I mentally catalogue my repertoire of responses for any looks or comments, but what usually happens is that I mumble apologies, shuffle off, maybe have a little cry & hurry to find another #toilet.": buff.ly/4JBFUxp by InvisiblyMe #disability #PublicToilet #ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness

"Yes, I see 2 different types of #doctors for my #heart, who look after different aspects of the same organ..& no, heart rhythms are not something my #cardiologist knows too much about.": buff.ly/Fs2RXDJ #MondayBlogs #cardiology

"There’s nothing quite like a proper #massage when your body feels like it’s been assembled by an apprentice IKEA builder. Whether it’s a professional #therapist ..or just using a massage ball at home.": buff.ly/qOq6PTk #ChronicPain #spoonie #PainManagement by @vikkyleaney.bsky.social

"In order to flower, #SelfCompassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own #vulnerability. #Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.": buff.ly/gHTRHWl via MindfulOnline #SelfCare #BeKind