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the dark blessings of having a chronic
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illness okay so this is something that
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no one from the outside has any business
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in my opinion really even talking about
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um let alone advising you on but you may
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find living with a chronic illness that
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a certain aspects of your life even
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though it's very very difficult and it's
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a kind of trial by fire you may find
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that there's certain aspects of your
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life which are in some ways improving so
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for me this is very much my awareness of
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the struggles of fellow human beings so
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my compassion my empathy my
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understanding of the struggles of people
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with various disabilities this has been
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a kind of growing point for me I had
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some awareness but I wasn't kind of
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intimately aware in the way that I have
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been since I became ill there's also
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this issue of how do we overcome how do
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we actually survive with the intensity
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and the difficulty the level of
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challenge that we've been presented with
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and in answering that question not in a
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kind of intellectual guessing way but in
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terms of like you know digging deep into
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the depths of our being and finding out
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what resources we have we can actually
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sometimes find that we have resour
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ources which enable us to not only
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survive but sometimes to actually thrive
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in spite of our condition so these are
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some of the dark blessings but like I
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say if someone from the outside is
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saying well why don't you look on a
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bright side you look at the Silver
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Linings it's like you got no business
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doing that these things emerge
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organically naturally in their own time
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you might become aware that something is
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good there's a good thing that happened
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as a result of you being ill it's
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important not to push this understanding
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to have a sense that you know I should
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be finding the Silver Linings I should
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be grateful you may not find any okay
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this is just something that can happen
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and it may be that the whole illness is
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just a kind of chaotic horrible
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experience and there's nothing good to
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say about it and that's totally
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understandable and it's you know it's no
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one else's place to judge that and even
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if that's what you're going through you
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shouldn't put pressure on yourself to
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try and make it into this good thing I'm
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simply talking about the possibility
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that through a kind of organic process
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of adapting to the illness all the
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change that that brings about you may
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turn around and think okay C of couple
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of good things have come out there a
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couple of nuggets of gold in spite of
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the fact that it's still incredibly
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difficult so we don't ever want to kind
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of downplay how difficult living with a
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chronic illness is that's not the point
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of this video okay thanks for watching
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