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Blue Bird
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« Reply #21 on: Sunday January 07, 2007, 05:32:30 AM » |
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Thank You Lox, those "Ten Commandments of P" are inspiring and so very beautiful.
I don't have Psoriasis, but I have had a skin problem for the past 2 and 1/2 years. The whole experience has caused me to be only a shell of my former self. Your words almost lifted the heavy burden off of me by making me stop being so hard on myself, after falling into a spiral of depression brought on by an itchy, burning, annoying facial skin condition.
Although the skin condition used to be on my cheeks, nose, forehead and chin, after a lot of experimenting with prescription creams, natural remedies and everything else, I now only have this one dreaded "thing" on my chin. It is not exactly psoriasis, but it might as well be. It causes me endless humiliation and dread
which leads to feeling melancholy and nervous. It has certainly affected my self image and everything in my life as a whole. Posts like yours, LOX, help me more than you might know, to start to crawl out of my dark moods and frustration and maybe one day I will feel more normal, like I used to be.
Sometimes I think it will always be there, and sometimes I think it will go away, when I see it retreating I think the lesion is starting to resolve, and that sometimes makes me feel more normal. But, whenever I wake up, the same thing seems to just still be there. I hate it.
Your poem seems to speak to me, too, and I think the honorable Total Folly was absolutely correct when she said that your "Ten Commandments" could be applied to any skin condition or skin disease. Her statement is certainly true for me, because I totally relate to everything you wrote and it touched my heart in a way that brought tears to my eyes.
How can I thank you enough for shining a light into my heart, one that seems to be broken from the unresolvability of a stupid little skin problem that could have chosen to crop up anywhere on my whole body, but it is only on my chin, it had to crop up on my face, the one thing that we all have to use to face the world.
Thank you again and again for reaching out to those around you like that, I really like your attitude and I only wish that I could feel the same way you do. Well, maybe one day, I will. My family sure hopes so, I know that. I hope your thoughts sink in and take hold of my melancholy as time goes by. Bless you a thousand times.
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When we understand that there is no up without a down,no over without an under, no good without a bad, no light without dark, no hot without cold, no yes without a no, we understand wholeness, and we cease to be disturbed, distressed, or perplexed by the illusion of anything less than wholeness.
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