emotions

Stage 1

Your emotions can often fluctuate when you are in pain, the more you are able to do the better mood you  will feel and like wise with the less you can do your mood will  drop.

Stage 2

When you start experiencing your pain ,you at first are fearful and concerned, you can worry your pain involves something serious or even life threatening and it becomes the main focus in your life but you will  find the more  you worry the worst  it gets.

Then you learn what your pain is and the fear is replaced with hope that the dr sat in front of you can now fix it so life can return back to normal. You  start  to realize after a while that its not getting  fixed and hope starts to fade.

Stage 3

Then you hit the why me stage and look  over what state your life has now become and may find yourself taking your frustration out on family members, drs and generally friends. your life  doesn't feel like your  own anymore and your fighting to gain control over it

Stage 4

You  know feel guilty  over the things you have said to people but instead of saying sorry a lot withdraw so you don’t take any more anger out on your friends and family. You also feel guilty cause you are now physically able to do less then ever and can not keep up the thing you are used to  doing

Stage 5

You are starting to accept and learn to cope which give you a new lease of hope but time after time the pain hits and you  cant make it out of that bed that day. You start  not  to care about your appearance so much and things  don’t seem important anymore .your self esteem hits a all time low fear isolation set back in  and you  start looking into more treatments and  ideas . Which then restarts the cycle of above all over again