Coping With IBD, Does Attitude Matter?

Does attitude matter is a question that many often wonder when it comes to dealing with something like Inflammatory Bowel Disease? It is so easy to get caught up in the frustrations of the disease. Often times people are having to miss out on many of life's special moments while dealing with some of the issues caused by the disease. Some people even wonder if it is even possible to be happy while having the disease.

Studies have shown that attitude does play a part in how well people do. When looking at some people, you could never tell the struggle that they have had while coping with their disease. It is not until you talk to them, and find out their story that you truly know what they have gone through. They are thriving with a disease that so many are simply trying to survive with.

It is so easy to get caught up in the bad things about the disease. When people are first diagnosed the doctors tell them that it is something that they will have to deal with for the rest of their lives. When getting put on a biologic, the doctors inform the patients that they will be getting a shot every two weeks, or an infusion not less than every six weeks basically until they die. For those who are young this can be something extremely hard to handle.

When a person decides that no matter what, they will fight the disease, and refuse to let the disease win there is a difference. The quality of life for those people becomes significantly better. They refuse to sit at home. Instead they are out living their lives to the fullest. Some actually are doing more while having the disease than before being diagnosed. Many people actually use their disease as a reason to live. If they can do something while having the disease, why can't someone who doesn't the disease do it? They then start affecting even those without the disease. These people are the ones who you would not be able to tell if they had anything wrong or not.

It is so easy to get caught up in the fact that one has a chronic disease. It is up to us to make the decision on whether or not we let it be a death sentence, or a reason to live. The choice is yours, what will you do?

How will you respond to your diagnosis? Will you merely survive with the disease, or will you thrive with it? The choice is yours.

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