TOP 4 Ways to Defy Poor Health

How to defy poor health & limiting ideas.

     Some of the best healing stories I've ever heard come from defiant patients. In a scenario where defiance was an asset, I enjoyed reading an article written by a practicing physician, Dr. Annie Brewster, who defied her doctor's orders when she was diagnosed with 'probable MS' and was recommended to start 'disease modifying therapy' immediately. She took both paths of managing the 'probable' and ultimately ended up rejecting the medication path altogether because it simply took too much out of her. (1) What I appreciate most from her experience, is that she learned a lot from being on the patient side of things. That the 'right' thing to do is based on a multitude of factors that only the patient can fully assess from the whole context of their lives.

     Whether educated in a facet in the medical field or not, our understanding of healing and managing illness is minuscule until we have to fight our way through it. Our assumptions of trust can easily follow the most elaborate architecture of hospital buildings, pharmaceutical 'cutting-edge' developments and those associated within. But for an independent mind willing to leverage the digital age of informational access, you will end up at a common thread understanding as I did, the money it takes to buy that prestige, doesn't come from effectively healing people. Beyond weighing the "potential side-effects" along side the "potential benefits" here is a life-preserver of healing philosophies that won't let you drown.

TOP 4 ways to defy poor health:

1.) KNOW YOUR DOCTOR'S LIMITS. Maybe all they can do is recommend drugs (even when they prefer homeopathic remedies) because the scope of their license and malpractice insurance forbids anything else. And naturally an ego can't help but desire to do something rather than nothing.

2.) ACCEPTING SYMPTOMS, NOT MINIMIZING. Perhaps your doctor, friends or partner has never been a patient with the debilitating side of losing autonomy, and therefore it can seem like those on your side minimize the experience. You are the only one with the power to do that, advocate your needs and they will too.

3.) CARING FOR THE EMOTIONAL BURDEN. Because treatments are specific to the physical side of the injury, your doctor has no access whatever to the whole context of the emotional trauma you face or how you shoulder the emotional burden of managing pain. Increase your own psychological tool set with tools such as Goalistics.com.

4.) INCREASE YOUR WORKING KNOWLEDGE. The process of increasing your personal working knowledge on healing alternatives is therapeutic in itself. It creates hope by giving you new answers to how your body works.

(1) Brewster, A. (2012, August 31). Patient Angst: When You Just Have To Say ‘No’ To The Doctor. CommonHealth RSS. Retrieved June 23, 2014, from http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/08/patient-angst-when-you-just-have-to-say-no-to-the-doctor