Hello and welcome to Believe in ME with Rhona Barton.  In this week’s episode I’m going to be chatting to you about Independence & ME.  What I mean by that, is Mental Resilience.

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As we all know by now, when you have an ME diagnosis, you lose a lot of things.  Aspects of your life that you always believed would be in your control are suddenly being controlled or looked after by other people. 

I remember this specifically during my time in hospital.  It seemed that my opinion or what I wanted didn’t matter.  I was stabbed with needles to have bloods taken.  I was wheeled down to an MRI scanner.  I was manoeuvred into position to have a lumbar puncture done.  None of which was through my own choice.  It seemed like, once I was pushed through the hospital doors, I ceased to be a person with thoughts, opinions or choices.  It appeared to me, that I was expected to just do what I was told by the experts.  What happened to me being my own expert?  When did a medical professional’s bedside manner stop being about the patient and start being about the process?

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