Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
The fourth stage of Dr. Jennifer Martin’s seven-stage iteration for chronic illness is Anxiety and Depression. Anxiety and Depression – what a combination! But when anger fades, this is what is left. Anxiety is our fear of the future, and…
The third stage of Dr. Jennifer Martin’s seven-stage iteration for chronic illness is Anger. What brings anger? The third stage, Anger, is caused by the what-ifs: What if I had done something differently? What could I have done to prevent…
Now on the to the second stage of Dr. Martins Chronic Illness Grief Cycle. (Dr. Jennifer Martin altered Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s original “5 Stages of Greif” to a seven stage iteration for chronic illness.) Dr. Martin calls the second stage,…
As I deal with the grief of having CRPS for the second time, I see our entire world struggling with similar stages as we face the pandemic of COVID-19. Dr. Jennifer Martin altered Elizabeth Kubler Ross’s original “5 Stages of…
Ordinary Pain Pain is subjective by its very nature. What causes you extreme pain maybe something I would barely notice or the other way around. How much and what kinds of pain you have experienced in your life affects how…