Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Effects of Stress On The Person With Arthritis

Arthritis by itself can be very stressful and very taxing on your body. The source of the stress can be from the pain that no one but you, can understand, or it can be having enough energy to get you through one day and being totally exhausted and having to stay in bed the next day. Or looking fine and feeling like crap or people looking at your rash or that bent up finger, or maybe even the fact that know you have to depend on others in ways that are uncomfortable to you. Maybe the source of the stress is that you can no longer do the things that define who you are and who you want to be along with not being able to do the things you once did.

There are distressing thoughts that can come out because of how you perceive, define , and interpret the arthritis-related symptoms:

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