Trigeminal Neuralgia

[ken300]

Gareth,

I REALLY wasn't trying to make people feel sorry for me or make anyone think 'now there's someone worse off than me so what am I moaning about'. In reality I'm the happiest now that I've ever been even though by 'normal' peoples standards I should be really, really miserable.

I just wanted to pass on my experience of how i cope with the pain, my illness and constantly having to change your expectations of how life will turn out with every doctors appointment.

The 'pushing the boulder' thing has helped keep me level headed after all the stuff that would turn most people into emotional wrecks & helped enable me to 'detatch' myself from things when I really need to.

Kena

[Gareth]

I honestly didn't think you were trying to make us feel sorry for you.

I feel exactly the same way as you: my body is fundamentally broken, but I don't think I have been as happy in my life.

[Gareth]

I wrote a blog about the TN

http://www.everyday-mindfulness.org/embrace-the-pain/

[FeeHutch]

That's a very powerful piece Gareth, especially because you were writing it as an attack of TN was starting. It lends it even more credibility for want of a better word, that you weren't writing about something that used to happen, that mindfulness used to help with but something that was going on for you in the present moment.