How to you maintain balance when being optimistic leads to disappointment?
I know that everyone deals with ups and downs in life but the specific issue that keeps threatening my mental health and that is currently taking its toll on me in the never ending aspect of there always being another symptom, check up, treatment or review in the pipeline.
At this point I don't even wish for my health issues to all be gone, I just want a single month without more and more issues. I'm generally not pessimistic but I'm finding it hard that just when I think that I'm doing my best with any of my conditions I either find out that I need more treatment or a totally new symptom turns up.
Please can you tell me how you deal with this aspect of being chronically ill? I've started worrying that I'm going to have a metal break from reality or slip back into severe depression. But I know my health conditions would likely become life-threatening if that happened.
