It is tough to hold back to stay inside limits! If these limits only stayed regular, or if life's needs only stayed even, this discipline would be a lot easier to accomplish. Even when doing what I understand to stay inside limits, I still find I overdo it on something. Something will involve speed, intensity, noise or some kind of exertion. Often this involves trying to match other people's pace or style to be in good communication with them--and then there are the crash days which follow. I am better off than the severely ill, but still in a very strange place in relationship to other people, my past abilities and current interests. Whatever discipline I can apply, more tends to be needed.
It is so paradoxical that an illness which causes so much impairment and dumbing down requires so much intelligence and resourcefulness to manage. I am always impressed by my fellow members here, what you try and what you manage to do. I thank you for your many efforts in helping the rest of us, even as you seek help yourself, to manage and to understand the strange condition that we have. Thank you for being here!
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