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2024 has started with a bang! 🙃

We're only half way through the FIRST month in 2024...

And I am already on steroids and antibiotics. Hospital visit. A multitude of calls to NHS 111 and my GP (General Practitioner [primary care physician]).

Now, desperately hoping meds work, so I don't have to go back to A&E (accident and emergency [ER]).

New Year, new proactive me 🤡

Asthma, said new who? Currently too tired and breathless to do anything lol.

Yehh 2024 🤪

Anyone else already 'failing' or on the road to 'failure' with resolutions?

#ChronicFatigue #MentalHealth #agoraphobia #agoraphobiawithouthistoryofpanicdisorder #anxiety #Depression #generalizedanxietydisorder #functionalneurologicaldisorder #chronicillness #irritablebowelsyndromeibs #backpain #auditoryprocessingdisorder #asthma #NewYear #newyearresolutions

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End of Year Goals

It was a mighty prompt that prompted this writing (haha- get it?) and I usually love the mighty prompts. They are usually a way to stop and reflect- on myself, on my ideas of success, on my my goals, etc. This one stopped me dead in my tracks as I was scrolling as it said the following:

What are your top 3 goals for the remainder of the year?

What really hurt was that I couldn’t come up with one, let alone three! This simple prompt, meant to lift up and celebrate even the smallest goals and achievements in the coming months, shed light to the fact that I don’t even know what my coming months look like. I should probably explain.

Because of my chronic illness, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, I’ve had to defer my acceptance to college back a year and take what is called a “gap year”. Gap years are pretty normal, the circumstances of mine is not. My goal is to take the fist semester and get my health under control, and then work to save up money the rest of the time so I can go to college next year in the best position I can be in to succeed. Unfortunately, the whole “getting my health under control” thing is a little harder than it sounds. It’s what we’ve been trying to do since since I was diagnosed and subsequently pulled out of school back in March. So obviously, it’s been going great (not).

As I’m writing this, I have come to the realization that goals don’t always have to be tangible. I don’t have to get x grades for my degree or make x amount of money or anything like that. So I’ve made some goals for the second half of 2021- even if I’m not entirely sure where it’s going to take me yet.

Emma’s 3 2021 Goals

- Smile at people when they make eye contact
- Accept the help as it comes, say thank you, and don’t brush off their support
- Support my friends as they go off to college and be the friend they can always come back to, no matter how far they’ve gone

As you go off and make your own goals, whether they look anything like mine or not, make them with you in mind. You are on your own journey, and are in a different stage of life than anyone else around you. Give yourself the grace to make goals that fit where you are right now, not where you wish you could be. I look forward to cheering you on as you reach for the stars!

#goalsetting #goals #Goal #mightyprompt #mightygoals #mightygoal #3goals #newyearresolutions #IIH #Writing #WritingThroughIt #CheckInWithMe #checkinonme #IdiopathicIntracranialHypertension #IH #IntracranialHypertension #College #gapyear

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#52things

I have stopped being so hard on my myself about #newyearresolutions , I've learned throughout the years of struggles with #ptds #Depression , #panic and #Anxiety attacks.
Still pushing myself to do better than last year.
My greatest challenge is isolation, I don't have any friends so it's hard for me to motivate myself to even go out.

I am glad I found you. I have a page on Instagram I would love to start posting my story.
Unpolished _diamond @Instagram

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