Stories and Psychology Tips from a Clinical Psychologist with Multiple Myeloma.
The leaves I’m leaning over right now are the same colour as the vomit I’ve donated into the drain beside
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I am going to add an interpretation to this event in my mind. A helpful, healthy interpretation. We can do that, we humans. Our minds do it all the time. We often add a narrative, meaning or attribution to an event that is negative, unhelpful and unhealthy. When we do, pain and suffering soon follow. Alternatively, we can also add helpful, wonderful, healthy, inspiring, enjoyable narratives to events, circumstances, thoughts, feelings and sensations. These can help us feel and create pleasure, celebration and hope.
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56 days since my stem cell transplant (SCT). I’ve now been home for the same amount of time that I
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Escape! I’m out of hospital. I burst into tears on leaving. Overwhelmed with a sense of freedom and loss. Loss
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You are a bit of bitch really aren’t you? Very clever. Coronavirus, Covid19 or whatever you are calling yourself, you’ve
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I listened to an interview with best-selling author Marion Keyes today and she talked about writing emotional landscapes. This is
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I’mmmmm back! When I left you last, Mum was in recovery from breast cancer and Dad’s melanoma was kicking him
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Peripheral neuropathy. A fancy pants way of saying pins and needles. Except it is a bit more than that and
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Hello you. Is anybody out there? Sorry I have been so silent for so long; it’s been a heck of
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Saying goodbye to anyone you love is tough. Saying goodbye to my parents is very very tough. It hits me
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