Have you ever..
Told someone "great, you work 6 days a week 12 hours a day, look where got me when I did that"?
But when you consider the conditions you were dealing with WHILE you were working six days a week, 12 hours a day, do you think you're being unduly hard on yourself? Probably the MS and the other illnesses you have at the same time contributed to the impact your morbidities and co-morbidities and anti-morbidities had on you? We typically have only the one body to accommodate ALL the conditions we're dealing with, not to mention the mental illnesses and developmental difficulties and tom foolery the flesh is heir to. I only recently acquired a newish diagnosis for difficulties I have had with executive function for the last 78 years....as my husband once remarked about something entirely different, "Tell it to take a number and wait its turn!"
What you said about all these conditions existing in one body really gets to the heart of it. People often think of diagnoses as separate things, but in real life they overlap and compete for the same limited resources like energy, attention, sleep, and resilience. This is often why I don’t agree with the saying that everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. For some people, a large part of the day is spent just trying to stabilize enough to function, which changes what “productivity” even means. This makes the line your husband said really true because it shows how productivity and capacity shift depending on what your body is asking for in the moment. Thanks for sharing! -Latoya (Team Member)
