How To Have Patience in Chronic Illness

Patience doesn't mean that you sit around and wait and don't do anything, or you put up with, say, a therapeutic intervention that's not going anywhere. Patience is more for the big picture. It takes longer for even very perfectly timed, appropriate treatments to work when you're chronically ill. And sometimes it's more like an up and down of a roller coaster, especially in the beginning, where you'll make some gains and then you may lose some ground and make some more gains and lose some ground. That is the normal process of chronic illness. So you having patience with it over time. But like I say, patience doesn't mean putting up with not going anywhere in your treatment. This is where feedback between you, the patient, and whoever your practitioner or practitioners are becomes very important.