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Re: Thoughts
From: A (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:47:41 -0400
well said.....
anonymous wrote:
> Ok. I've been reading alot on here lately about insensitivity and
> severity contests and whatever else. Whether we are a size 2 or a size
> 32 we all deserve the same respect. What it comes down to is love
> yourself no matter what you look like. Are any of us perfect? No matter
> who you are there is always something you think is god aweful imperfect
> and for you that is the most important thing. Take a 15 year old girl
> that falls under societies pretty category. Perfect figure perfect
> everything. Yet the girl is anorexic and has false beliefs about
> herself and what she looks like. Is her weight any less traumatic to
> her than to me weighing at 330? I doubt it. It all goes to how you view
> yourself.
>
> Sometimes I think we can get too overly involved in an illness and
> forget to live. The illness becomes our life. Sure I spent an hour in
> the morning removing hair. Sure I'll never have kids. Sure I'll never
> be that perfect size that people think I should be. Matter of fact I'm
> way beyond that. Sure my periods will never be normal and cease to
> exist unless I'm on bcp. I might even have to take drugs other than
> that. Sure there's alot of other things that come into play with pcos.
> However, there's alot of people out there with much worse diseases. I'm
> just thankful all my major major life organs are functioning. I don't
> have cancer. I'm not dying of AIDS. This is managable. Don't let the
> illness overtake your life. Even if you spend 3 or 4 hours or whatever
> if the morning plucking hairs you got the next 20 or 21 to live.
>
> It's hard. I know. Just be thankful that you are you. The world is a
> hospital. For the most part, everyone has some sort of illness.
>
> Just thoughts.
>
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