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Mary Ruddick: Dysautonomia, mental tricks to alleviate pain and how to rebuild yourself

Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.

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The Power of Gratitude

"I decided I was not going to feel sorry for myself," he says. "Every time I felt sorry for myself or angry, which was frequent, I would write until I didn't feel that way anymore." He writes about tiny things such as his earlobe and dust in the room on hard days. The stress hormone cortisol is released when we are chronically ill but can be lowered through joy.

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