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Apr 29, 2007 22:43

My mother's worried.. Walter's worried.  Everyone seems to be worried that I'm going to do something destructive.  I can honestly say that while I really DON'T want to live through the next month or so, that doesn't mean I don't want to live.  That means I want to skip ahead to when I know I'll begin to feel better.  I hate not feeling good and I want to be over him now.  I don't want to be hurt.  I can even say that while I miss him... I don't miss him as much as I know I should at this stage, which is good. But I'm in the same amount of PAIN anyways.  I read this

"a heart can come a lot closer to actually breaking than you might think.

"It is a lot like a heart attack in some ways," Dr. Ilan Wittstein said. "People can come in with all the same symptoms that heart attack patients have: chest pain, shortness of breath."

Dr. Wittstein at Johns Hopkins Medical Center is among several doctors who identified what's now called "broken heart syndrome."

In fact, a large number of patients who have had this come in after some kind of emotional trauma, such as the death of a loved one, a sudden motor vehicle accident and some kind of fright.

"A breakup can cause this," Anderson said. "We've had, actually, a couple of people we've seen in who had a break up or learned about a spouse's infidelity and confronted the spouse, experienced signs and symptoms of the syndrome." "

I signed up for some free 7 day trial about letting go and healing and all that.. they send you something each day.  The first one, I've already done, but it was good to read about it.  reading about it helped a little, but then it stopped.  I need to do something else with my time now...  I felt I needed to put this part down too, so I can read this later and know that I've done this thing before, I know it works... I just wish it was a month from now...

"When you can soothe yourself, calm yourself, distract yourself, entertain yourself, heal yourself, you gain confidence that you can count on yourself," she said.

Tracy said women who have gone through difficult breakups need to do something that can make them fee successful.

"An activity that makes you feel like I have control again," she said. "I can actually achieve something. That's just going to help restore your self-esteem."

Terry said that in the aftermath of a breakup, women need to listen to themselves and heal on their own terms. Erica said she now treasures time alone and the time she spends with her family and friends."
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