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What If Desperation Can Transform Into Temporary Strength?
Dear Audy, The wedding…it was beautiful. I’m so thrilled for the stunning bride and her equally stunning groom. I wish them nothing but happiness in their lives together. My body…it survived. I threw...
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My Great Tasmanian Getaway: Part 1
Dear Audy, I’m back! Back from being whisked away for an escape from my dreary life. Back from a wonderful few weeks with my very own Prince Awesome. Back from the south, as far south as one can drive...
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Dear Audy, I have been dark for a long time. I couldn’t talk to you, I couldn’t even look at you. For the first 6 years of my illness the Internet was an amazing place where I could still interact with...
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Cocooning
Dear Audy, It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. Had I known that I would be going dark for such a long time, I might have let you know. However, I did not know and could not tell that the...
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Finding Out Who My Real Friends Are
Dear Audy, When I first developed CRPS and started interacting with the online chronic pain community, I remember one warning that was broadcast repeatedly from many patients who had been playing this...
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The Confusing Art of Communicating a Life in Chronic Pain
Dear Audy, The physical pain of CRPS has been highly restricting me for several weeks now. Well, it’s been doing that for over seven years, but what I mean to describe is a higher level of...
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The Problem is in the Positivity
Dear Audy, I’ve had to put a lot of extra effort into simply coping with being alive this Spring. It’s been easy to get down about that, to feel like I’m taking unwanted tangents on a journey that...
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Noticing the Disappointment Cycle
Dear Audy, At the start of this week, I started writing to figure out where I was at with the whole coping with life thing and discovered that I’d been tripping myself up by expecting too much from my...
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Under the Shroud
The shroud came down on Saturday afternoon. Blanketing me from head to toe, floating around my body like a cloudy veil between the world and me. I recognise it now, although the shroud’s favourite game...
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Learning More from the Coping Techniques I’ve Learnt Before
I began writing this post last week, at a time when I was feeling particularly low, before I remembered that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy had helped me cope with similar emotions in the past. Sometimes,...
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