“Just think positive, and you will be OK.” Well, yes and no! Positive thinking has a very important role in chronic illness-but more about that another time. When “positive thinking” means ignoring the emotional pain of a diagnosis of chronic illness, when “positive thinking” means ignoring the pain of grieving for the losses in your life and hopes and dreams, when “positive thinking” means denying what you feel then it’s not a good thing at all.
Feelings buried alive don’t die. The only way out is to go through the pain. And on the other side of the pain is the place where positive thinking lives.
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