{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F68ac4de6-4aa1-49bb-a5b8-0da752c0729a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Grieving For My Old Life","description":"Hello and welcome to this episode of the Ankylosing Spondylitis podcast. It's really great to have you all back for another episode. This is going to be an interesting one; it's going to get a little deep, maybe a little heavy. \nI came across an article that was pretty interesting, written in Healthline by Angie Ebba from June of 2019. The article and there will be a link in the show notes was titled \u201cStay Positive\u2019 Isn't Good Advice for Chronically I\u2019ll People. Here's Why.\u201d Now, let me preface this with a few things. I tend to try and always say, if anybody asks me how I'm doing, \u201cI'm doing fine, doing great.\u201d You know, those are just the standard go-to responses. Everything's good. We all know that with a chronic illness, we all can suffer from depression. It's just normal because you're constantly in pain. And you look around co-workers, friends, spouses who aren't dealing with these items, and it can just really play with your psyche and put you in a depression. As we look at that, if we have a spouse say, \u201cJust stay positive!\u201d or a parent that says \u201cJust stay positive\u201d, You know, you get through this, we know that they don't understand the pain and the issues of what a person with chronic illnesses/ chronic pain deals with. I want to believe that they're not saying that to be mean, or know what to believe that they're saying that to really be helpful to you, really to try and bring your spirits up, but I don't know if that works for all of us.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/06dd34e9-c3ff-4596-abcb-10047f1717ba/w7jzy4spvmduuvm7vgxoncty.jpg"}