'How to be Sick' Group Members: Please Read & Agree

[Koushi]

If anyone needs assistance in purchasing the book, I’m happy to help with a few copies.

Gassho,
Jesse
ST

[Hoseki]

I’m in as well and I will abide by the rules.

Gassho

Hoseki
Sattoday


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[Meian]

Accepted and agreed.

Gassho, meian stlh

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[Tomás ESP]

I know I said I would participate, but because of personal circumstances I would rather skip this one. I am sure it will be incredibly interesting, but I have been so focused on the management of my illness and that of my mother, that I realize that I need to take a break from it. Right now what is most beneficial for me is just sitting and applying what I have learned in therapy for the pain management. I wish that this sharing may be of benefit to all of you. Thank you.

P.S (which breaks the 3 line rule, sorry...) Can't wait for a reading of Jundo's book!

Gassho, Tomás
Sat&LaH

[Onka]

Be kind to yourself Tomas.
Gassho
Onka
ST

[pat mackenzie]

I would also like to join the Toni Bernhardt group and commit to all the guidelines.
Toni’s book is also available on audible for any who are interested in an audible format.
Mani thanks, Pat

[brucef]

I'd love to take part and I agree to abide by the rules.

I'm in my early 70s. I've had two heart attacks. My main issue is arthritic pain though.

Heart disease often results in anxiety and depression. I'd like to deal with these better than I seem to.

Gassho
Bruce
Stlah

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[Senk]

I would like to participate and already have a copy.

Thank you.
Dustin
Sat today

[Risho]

Well I for one am "sick" of waiting.

Happy Friday

Gassho

Risho
-stlah

[Shonin]

LOL Risho, I was just thinkin the same thing. The book is here and just stares at me, calling to me like a siren and I'm like , "Nooo. Must wait for group."
Dave
SAT/LAH

[Eikyo]

Well I for one am "sick" of waiting.

Happy Friday

Gassho

Risho
-stlah

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Gassho,
Dee
ST

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[Tai Shi]

Dear All, What I have been practicing for some time is "Insight Meditation" as taught by Jack Kornfield, PhD of clinical psychology. Kornfield and others have practicied Insight Meditation for years through The Insight Meditadion Center, and at the entrance of the center is the word "metta," I also follow a book called Loving Kindness, Loving Kindness is the American version of metta, and there are other books available. If possible, if allowed, for I made a private slur on my friend Kokuu several weeks ago, and at the time I was experiencing level 9 pain. Sometimes as I detoxed from Oxycodone on Ward C of Avera Behavorial Helth, I wept uncontrolablly. This was overlooked by staff. The psychiatrist on duty misdiagnosed me as sciozophrenic. This has happened before. When reunited with my outpatitent psychiatrist, in the same buliding, I was taken off the antipsychotic, and started on an old reliable antidepresseant along with my other bipolar medications. I had been discharged but two weeks before. My diadnosis returned to bipolar one with depression and anxiety disorder. In my chart is noted my diagnosos of Ankylosing Spondylitis. Through the Spondylitis Association of America, there is research being conducted in the relationship between my disease and mental illness. I have been diagnosed with mental illness since I was 22. There was a great deal of misunderstanding about Ankylosing Spodylitis and mental illness, and the doctors I went to all gave me a verity of misdiognoses for spinal pain and mental illness. That was 1974. By the time I was diagnosed properly with both diseases, dammage was already severe and irreversable. Biological medications used to treat autoimune disorders have only been around sins about 2000. Both medications I'm on for bipolar disorder and Ankylosing Spondylitis did not exist in 2001. I was one of the first patients placed on a new drug at Sanford Health (Sioux Valley Hospital) about 2001, and my actual diagnosis only goes back to about 2012, about the time I was properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

I here make public apology to anyone I have ever hurt in this Zendo, my home group, over the past six years and three months, for my pain levels sometimes rise to 10 in spite of the advanced biological medication and several non-narcotic medications, and a low dose of one remaining opiate. I still sometimes have pain so bad I weep uncontrolably. Many autoimune disorders have benifited from a variety of biological medications. I have a good rheumatologist (MD), and a primary doctor who has been with me for many years. My primary doctor took over my pain management about five years ago from a doctor who did not understand addicion, so I am actually treated with two biological medications, one for my spine, the other for my eyes.

I especially apologize to Kokuu, my friend.
He knows these details. Could I be a part of this group?
The book these folks speak of is available in Kindle for $11.99. Certainly authors, as I know, get little of the profits of their books.
Gassho

sat/ lah

Tai Shi

Jundo please excuse this history because I thought it might benifit others. Tai Shi Excuse my typos, I have trouble reading these days. This book is endorsed by authors I'm familiar with.

[Onka]

Dear All, What I have been practicing for some time is "Insight Meditation" as taught by Jack Kornfield, PhD of clinical psychology. Kornfield and others have practicied Insight Meditation for years through The Insight Meditadion Center, and at the entrance of the center is the word "metta," I also follow a book called Loving Kindness, Loving Kindness is the American version of metta, and there are other books available. If possible, if allowed, for I made a private slur on my friend Kokuu several weeks ago, and at the time I was experiencing level 9 pain. Sometimes as I detoxed from Oxycodone on Ward C of Avera Behavorial Helth, I wept uncontrolablly. This was overlooked by staff. The psychiatrist on duty misdiagnosed me as sciozophrenic. This has happened before. When reunited with my outpatitent psychiatrist, in the same buliding, I was taken off the antipsychotic, and started on an old reliable antidepresseant along with my other bipolar medications. I had been discharged but two weeks before. My diadnosis returned to bipolar one with depression and anxiety disorder. In my chart is noted my diagnosos of Ankylosing Spondylitis. Through the Spondylitis Association of America, there is research being conducted in the relationship between my disease and mental illness. I have been diagnosed with mental illness since I was 22. There was a great deal of misunderstanding about Ankylosing Spodylitis and mental illness, and the doctors I went to all gave me a verity of misdiognoses for spinal pain and mental illness. That was 1974. By the time I was diagnosed properly with both diseases, dammage was already severe and irreversable. Biological medications used to treat autoimune disorders have only been around sins about 2000. Both medications I'm on for bipolar disorder and Ankylosing Spondylitis did not exist in 2001. I was one of the first patients placed on a new drug at Sanford Health (Sioux Valley Hospital) about 2001, and my actual diagnosis only goes back to about 2012, about the time I was properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

I here make public apology to anyone I have ever hurt in this Zendo, my home group, over the past six years and three months, for my pain levels sometimes rise to 10 in spite of the advanced biological medication and several non-narcotic medications, and a low dose of one remaining opiate. I still sometimes have pain so bad I weep uncontrolably. Many autoimune disorders have benifited from a variety of biological medications. I have a good rheumatologist (MD), and a primary doctor who has been with me for many years. My primary doctor took over my pain management about five years ago from a doctor who did not understand addicion, so I am actually treated with two biological medications, one for my spine, the other for my eyes.

I especially apologize to Kokuu, my friend.
He knows these details. Could I be a part of this group?
The book these folks speak of is available in Kindle for $11.99. Certainly authors, as I know, get little of the profits of their books.
Gassho

sat/ lah

Tai Shi

Jundo please excuse this history because I thought it might benifit others. Tai Shi Excuse my typos, I have trouble reading these days. This book is endorsed by authors I'm familiar with.

Yesterday was yesterday. Today is today. We will deal with what tomorrow brings us tomorrow.
Of course you're welcome as part of this group and thank you for being you Tai Shi, perfectly imperfect.
Gassho
Onka
Sat today.

[ZenHarmony]

I, too, would like to join, if I'm able to get the book in time, and despite my misgivings.

(Some may remember me as Lisa, it's Lauren now)

Gassho, Lauren
sat today/lah

[Kaishin]

I would like to join in, and I agree to the terms.

Thank you
-sT