The BIG ROLE of Mindset in Dealing with Chronic Illness

What mindset helps with chronic illness? Chronic illness is super frustrating for your healthcare provider, for the patient, family. And so the biggest part of the mindset is having patience and persistence. And that means that you have to give yourself or your friend or your patient a little bit of a break because it's slow going and it's super frustrating. But also you have to have the persistence to not only keep going, but to communicate. If it's the provider, to communicate what's going on to the patient, or if it's the patient, to communicate what's going right, what's going wrong with the provider. And what that leads to is the bigger picture, which is empowerment. And all of the science around medical empowerment shows that the more empowered you are as a patient, the better your therapies work, the better your quality of life is, and you usually heal faster.