@creative_writer aye it's all interlinked and complex and oh so frustrating - to make it a vast understatement.
The greatest issue I see is not in you, but in our healthcare system. As long as we continue to treat the mind and body separately, we are going to continue to struggle to build realistic and effective treatments that actually meet folks' needs.
You know, an old friend of mine told me, during their nursing studies, that whenever the body has any physical ailment, the very first symptom is usually anxiety. I would imagine with your eye continuing to cause you grief, that would be impacting your mental state. Probably no surprises there but I sometimes find it helpful to remind myself of those things whenever my mood goes wonky. It easily becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, where the stress makes it harder to heal, and the ailments make us more stressed.
I've actually been contemplating starting up a thread on like, 'what to try when it feels like you've tried everything' - as a way of compiling all these wonderful pathways to and through recovery that aren't just 'take meds and see a psych'. Maybe we can, as a community, have a discussion about what that can look like, and about how different ways of healing might fit into our recovery. What do you reckon?
