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Scottydog
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/10/2005 : 09:16:48
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Why do some people get through life with NO health probs at all.
My mother in law is 83, she is very healthy, no arthritis, no digestive probs nothing. Her father died when he was 37, her husband when he was only 57. She has 5 children, 3 financially successful, 2 not. Has few friends, life revolves around her family. She's not the easiest to get on with. What is her secret?
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molomaf
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Posted - 05/10/2005 : 09:28:38
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Because "she is not the easiest to get on with"!! She probably doesn't care what others think and says what's on her mind. She's not holding anything back like us "nice" people.
Michele
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windy
USA
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Posted - 05/10/2005 : 09:32:10
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| LOL - I'm not the easiest person to get on with all the time but I have TMS issues. |
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Stryder
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Posted - 05/10/2005 : 19:54:05
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| Good point. The old saying [modified], "Nice guys [with TMS] finish last". -Stryder |
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pault
USA
169 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 05:02:00
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| Very secure personality! No need for distractions? |
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Scottydog
United Kingdom
330 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2005 : 06:05:43
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Yes, I guess that's it.
Maybe a very happy and loving childhood. Though her only sister has various anxiety related health problems.
Life's a mystery.
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ssjs
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2005 : 08:24:28
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I think some people are more suseptible to tms stuff, and that may explain some things,
but when I was in my 20's I worked in a small local type beauty salon and all of the miserable old complaining women I met were all unhappy to begin with. Everything hurt them and when they came through the door the whole shop couldn't wait till they left.
Other women would come in like a breath of fresh air. Happy and full of sunshine. They lifted the whole shop and it was like a party was going on. After awhile we would ignore the sad ones, which I am sure made them sadder.
The sad ones were always sick and in pain and the happy ones seemed fine and went about their business, not always with a smile, but you wern't afraid to ask them how things were going.
I am sure they had PLENTY of their own problems. But as we know...it is all how we react to them.
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Colleen
USA
138 Posts |
Posted - 05/13/2005 : 17:10:21
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Sandy,
This is very interesting what you have just said. My Mom was a very pleasant person, spoke to everyone, very active person-she walked 10 miles per day for 25 years and she was into nutrition big time, didn't smoke or drink, didn't even take vitamins....everything nutritionally.....then she was diagnosed with cancer. Even through the cancer and up until her death, she was a pleasant person, thanking the nurses and docotrs for their "help" and telling us daily that she "loved us". As I read more about the mind body connection and viewed her life in every aspect I could, I realized that she was absorbing so much family stress and making it all look like we were perfect. I am not saying that caused her cancer directly, but I do think it may have contributed to it.
So, you are right in saying that these pleasant people do have plently of their own issues, they just deal with them differently.
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Posted - 05/14/2005 : 03:57:08
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My father didn't 'believe in doctors'. He didn't see anyone for around forty years, until a few months before his death and he didn't call the doctor then, I did.
His take on illness - ignore it and it will go away and in his case it did.
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Why do some have no health probs
