SHOCK ANGER DESPAIR!
I was paralyzed from the waist down for several years in my thirties. The ten tips below came from my own hard, slow work to regain my mobility, and the common experiences of many disabled clients in similar situations. They will help you understand what might be happening in your mind, body and social life, moving you along the road to living normally with your disability as soon as possible.When a person is newly disabled by accident, illness or genetics, a host of physical, emotional and social changes present themselves. Most of these changes are things no one can truly prepare for. There are suddenly no usual routines, no guidelines in how to proceed with success.Newly disabled people can feel frightened, abandoned and without direction as pain and loss often dominate their recovery. These feelings can derail further growth and progress into a new, functional and successful life.It is my hope that the following tips will help you see your justifiable feelings, new experiences and the situations that can arise from sudden disability don’t have to be the end of the world. From unable to do all the things you could before your disability, see yourself Differently Able to do whatever you can Dream.
READ MORE HERE
via Tips For the Newly Disabled | Disabilities and Aging.
Living With Myositis 
marcy westerling
August 10, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Thank you for doing this! I have been pondering the barriers of the disabled a bit more of late. I am an ‘able-bodied’ disabled by having a stage iv cancer diagnosis. We are encouraged, I think, to see ourselves as different, better perhaps. It is a very false divide that limits our collective voice. Anyway, I appreciate your efforts.
warmly, marcy
http://livinglydying.com/2013/08/09/scapegoating-of-the-disabled-2013/
Roly
August 11, 2013 at 8:59 am
Keep fighting 🙂
Christine Kunz
April 24, 2020 at 3:41 pm
There is so much choice compared to the UK