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2much2do, Glad you got the result.
My story is similar to Leopold’s, but over the last fifteen years or so, I had dropped many of the foundations of my coping skills. After the diagnosis, it is relatively easy to put them back in place. In fact more so because I can now see their value. Medication has helped me on this path, but I can see it’s a two edged sword. It became very apparent to me at the start, that the meds could even make things worse if there were no behavior change to focus on. I used to think that much of the things I used to do that under pinned my well being, were just reducing general anxiety. It is now clear that the biggest benefit was practicing mindfulness without even knowing it. For me, “regular and continuing” Progressive Muscle Relaxation, meditation, and adventure sports make a huge difference to how my brain functions in everyday situations.
I hope the meds help you find the other pieces to the puzzle too.
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