Healing Fear When IDENTIFIED AS HAVING Illness

Receiving an illness diagnosis is among the most dreaded events that you experienced. It arrives uninvited, unwelcomed and most of that time period unexpected. When receiving the news from your doctor aside from the phrase, "I am sorry to inform you...", you often notice a shift in the clinician's energy, darkening the room like a cloud passing over the meeting. Shock is the most prevalent experience following the diagnosis, but after the shock melts away the most frequent experience is fear.

What is it that we fear? A lot of people when receiving a chronic or life-threatening illness diagnosis fear dying. The simple truth is that people all fear dying. You almost certainly don't think me but stop and think for an instant about your death anxiety prior to the diagnosis. Do you have a will? Do you have life insurance? Do you have a healthcare proxy? That is about preparation which his great, but it's predicated on fear that we will die. The simple truth is that we are going to die; the hope is that it is not very soon. If you can see that we all have death anxiety it creates battling fear easier.

Fear is rooted in the unknown. Even if you have friends or family who has experienced a health challenge; it's very different experimentally when it's you who is the individual. The fact of the problem is that we don't don't stop talking about our mortality until someone dies. The idea that death exists is kept at arms length as if it were contagious. It's natural to want to retreat following your diagnosis, but the easiest way to combat fear is by experiencing it and putting fear in its place.

Education is the primary component along the way of eradicating fear. The underpinnings of fear are based on insufficient knowledge. Your first response to your diagnosis was most likely using the stories you've heard from others and although some of them may be true, we all have created urban legends about our experiences, even though it comes to illness. Get educated! Don't rely solely on the pamphlets in your doctor's office or the advertisements within most major magazines, depend on the community at this point you belong to predicated on your diagnosis. Discover the national advocacy/education/support organization that serves your specific diagnosis. (Remember that some organizations are umbrella organizations encompassing a massive continuum of illnesses)

What stories do you have in your mind that correlate to illness? You already have meaning mounted on illness before you've received your diagnosis. It is now time to throw the infant out with the bath water because there isn't a template for illness. The stories you've been told or tell yourself feed the fire of fear. As time progresses so does technology, pharmaceutical research and increased efficacy of allied health professions. Your story does not have to become a copy of those who've come before you. This is your journey to wellness and you end up being the author, editor and publisher. Make use of the information you acquire to enhance your story of health insurance and healing. Use your education to edit out the horror stories and replace them with possible options and alternatives.

We're a culture that is afraid of illness and yet overwhelmingly we don't take precautions to ward of disease. Is it really a surprise at the amount of people in Western culture that are diagnosed with a sickness? The surprise is that it's you and like most folks you thought you were immune to the diagnosis. Fear impedes your curiosity short circuiting your search for possible solutions to your wellbeing challenge. Don't let fear detour you from your destination...health!

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