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there's a few people out there content
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creators in the kind of recovery space
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who have this idea that if you have the
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right mindset and you do the right
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practices then any illness can be
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surmounted and I think this is very
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dangerous um because a lot of illnesses
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in spite of all of our best efforts are
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just chronic that's the nature of a
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chronic illness right now I don't deny
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in any way that we can do a vast amount
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to improve our situation to mitigate our
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symptoms to lead the best life that we
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can with the restrictions that we have
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but this is very different from
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saying if you do the right things you
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will be cured and therefore if you're
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not cured you're not doing the right
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things which is the implication that
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some of these people seem to make or
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have so it's a really interesting
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balance you know the victim mindset
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which is often referenced in this
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context can mean it's like you know I'm
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so dependent I'm not used to taking
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responsibility for my health I just
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expect the doctor to give me drug and
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then everything will be fine and I don't
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have to do anything myself but that's
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not going to get you very far right so
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you're going to need to find out what
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tools may suit you and there's so many
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tools out there you know things like
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diet supplements all that kind of stuff
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things like mindfulness practice body
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based um mindfulness like being you know
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really tuning into what's happening in
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your body things like Tai Chi Chum yoga
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stuff Lots you can do and i' there's
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probably loads that I haven't thought of
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but you know there there's a lot of
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Avenues you can go down and you can make
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a big difference usually you know there
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might be some situations where it's
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completely intractable and nothing's
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going to even improve by a few percent
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but let's face it if you're having a
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really tough life of a chronic illness
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even like a 5% increase in quality of
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life is gold isn't it it's like worth
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doing so I'm not saying we shouldn't use
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these tools but the other side of it is
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to be really careful not to imply to
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ourselves or to others that the reason
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they haven't recovered is because I
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haven't the right thing that's just so
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arrogant and it kind of lacks compassion
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in my view and can lead to this sense of
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like oh it must be my fault because I
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you know I'm not I'm not better and
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therefore I must be doing things wrong
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and that can then get into a negative
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cycle of self judgment and all this kind
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of stuff so I'm here to say you know
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it's very likely that you're doing your
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best um and you know you're doing
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amazingly and well done and I'm sorry
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you're struggling in the way that you're
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struggling and I hope that you find some
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tools that may mitigate some of your
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symptoms and improve your life even if
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just a little bit thanks for watching
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