True happiness doesn’t hit like a lightning bolt or a million-dollar lottery jackpot. Life is full of smaller pleasures, like enjoying beautiful weather, checking in with someone you care about, or taking time to do something you enjoy.
Are you sad, anxious, angry… or are you feeling that way?
A medical diagnosis, and all the uncertainty around it, can leave you feeling out of control. Scary decisions to be made. Treatments with unfamiliar side effects. Emotions all over the place. Loved ones trying to micromanage your life, or running for the hills. And when humans feel out of control, they begin to fear what we all fear the most: helplessness. But consider this: we are not in control of what happens in our lives. Life happens as it happens. Trying to have control over everything is trying to play God, and that’s a lose-lose p
It’s only human nature to feel so challenged that life seems like one long, hard road. With nothing going right and everything going wrong.
Prescriptions are expensive. If you don’t have insurance, you may be making some tough decisions about your medications. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need through the program that is right for them. Many will get their medications free or nearly free. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance will help you find the program that’s right for you, free of charge.
One of the best ways to deal with stress is to get lost. That is, to get lost inside of something that you enjoy doing.
If you are a caregiver, it’s hard not to feel helpless when the person you are caring for has bad days. You don’t know what to do and so you feel scared, as any human being would. But as a result, you may unintentionally slip into to “blaming the victim.”