Living with Illness

Questions about Illness

• What do you do already that contributes to your feeling healthy and not sick?

• Of the activities you enjoy doing, which can you continue to do despite your illness and disability?

• Who do you know who is supportive of you no matter how you feel physically or emotionally?

• What do you do that contributes to that person's wanting to support you?

• How might you link up with others who are experiencing similar medical problems?

• What have you learned already about your condition that makes you more of an expert on yourself today than you were in the beginning?

• Who might benefit from understanding what you know about yourself and your condition?

• How can you form a relationship to your illness or disability so that you and your illness are allies, not enemies?

• Who can you ask to be on your team to be sure that illness or disability do not take up more of your life than absolutely necessary?