Dr. John A. King describes a rugby injury that left him limping long after he healed, then explains how people with PTSD can develop the same habits of limitation. He separates failure from giving up: failure is trying again after a setback, giving up is never trying again. Growth means pushing past your comfort zone.
I remember I had this whole rugby injury and all my muscles were jacked up and my knee was jacked up. And I went in and got physiotherapy and got it fixed. And it was fixed. But I noticed that I would occasionally still walk with a limp when there was no need to walk with a limp because that was just a habit I'd gotten into. I think it's the same in our process of recovery. We can get in a habit of expecting our injury or our inability or our restrictions to still be in place when we've actually grown beyond that. That's why it's very important to continually push yourself beyond your comfort zone and into a place where you are striving to be a better person. There's a total difference between failing and giving up. Giving up means that you won't ever try again. Failure means that. You are trying again. And I think that's a very important part of recovering.
