Victim or Winner?

[tcmgpt13]

It bothers me hear us labeled as victims of Morgellons. I have heard mention of that word more than once recently on this forum. I suppose I could be a Morgellons victim if I chose to see myself that way. It would be so easy. Pitiful, helpless, at the mercy of this illness, unable to cope and angry at the world. Still, for me being excessively angry saps strength and energy, not to mention joy. At some point since becoming ill I told myself I could be a winner in living my life despite chronic illness. I may never be completely well again, but I can win. I can learn from my illness and learn what is truly important in life. It is amazing how much more I appreciate life now that I am sick.

I think we can all choose to learn and grow from our illness. We can become more compassionate and understanding people. We can learn to forgive even those who may have caused this illness. We can reach a peace within ourselves which helps not only us, but those who are around us. We can use our anger positively to fight for our cause in constructive ways. Some have already done this. They, by doing so, are no longer victims of Morgellons.

I feel we have to remember that we are not the first people who did not know what was causing their illness. Certainly there were thousands of years of illness when people did not even know what caused the common cold. Some thought it was carried in the air at night. For centuries, no one knew that fleas and filth spread the plague. Panic and fear ensued among large groups of people when plague struck their area. Scientific knowledge was very primitive in those days. Yet despite the fact that some people only worried about saving themselves there were others who tried to help the mortally ill even at the cost of their own lives. These latter people were not victims but winners, even if at some point they became ill and died from close contact with those they nursed. They retained their identity and their humanity.

I hope we can drop the victim label here. I hope we can continue to encourage scientific research for Morgellons. It is wonderful IMHO that so many here help by sharing here what they have learned about Morgellons and what works for them to ameliorate symptoms. Still others offer support, not just on the forum, but by telephoning and offering encouraging words to those who are going through a rough patch. Friendships have been forged. In doing so, these member have lost the victim label and become winners, fighters, and people who can learn and grow from this illness. Sure, real professional help and research for this disease has been slow in coming, but meanwhile we all have done the best we can with what we know to help others who have this illness. In doing so, our illness is no longer our identity. There are many stories of very sick people who have left the world a better place, because they never forgot they were not their illness, even when they were very sick.

This is what I tell myself everyday. I will not let Morgellons define who I am as a person. Morgellons is only one aspect of my life, but who I am is not Morgellons.

Here’s part of an article written on this subject:

Let’s Stop Labeling People
by Suzanne Kellner-Zinck

"There is this idea in the medical world that patients need to be labeled in order to be helped. What happens when a person is given a label? Generally speaking that person learns to believe that they have whatever that disorder or disease is labeled which in turn gives them a very good reason to not have to be responsible for them selves. They are the victim.

You see, they are ill and that means that they can’t help doing or thinking the things they do. It is just the way it is. This is especially true for individuals who are given a mental health diagnosis or two or three or more. Being here in America, more often than not a medication or two will be prescribed in order to take care of the problem which keeps the pharmaceutical companies happy as well as those who are doing the prescribing since the patient then will need to see them on a regular basis. Of course there are some cases where a prescription is the wise choice where perhaps someone is suicidal, psychotic or is incapacitated in some fashion.

However there are many fewer patients who fit these categories than all of the people who are now taking prescriptions because of their labels. For any of you who have been given one of these labels I am sure you were told that you would always be this way. You just needed to learn how to live with it. My next question would be: Where is the hope of ever being rid of the label in that case? You are lead to believe that you will always be SICK.

I work with all sorts of people who have been given all sorts of labels. In some cases the labels given would lead the allopathic world to believe that these people could never be a non-(put the label here). The interesting thing is that people create different thoughts and behaviors to deal with any limiting beliefs, negative emotions and losses.

However in the majority of cases the person who has made the decision to shed the label is able to create healthier ways of being in the world and in so doing no longer fits the label given. In fact what I have found from my work is that if people are given the chance to be accepted for who they are and have the opportunity to shed the label by doing and thinking in a manner that would no longer support the label, amazingly enough they are healed and able to move on in their lives in a much more productive manner.

What really needs to be done in most cases is to find out the cause for the destructive thought or behavior, clear it out, grieve any losses, do the forgiveness work necessary, while learning to set healthier boundaries in relationship to others. Guess what? All of a sudden the label is no longer pertinent in the majority of cases."

Let’s Stop Labeling People

[carla]

Nice thread TC. I don't feel like a Victim either.
If I hadn't developed Morgellons I would never have found out about Vaccines and the Toxic food I was providing for my Children.
I also found faith in our Holy Creator because of Morgellons.
How can anyone say we came from Apes is beyond me.
I take it as my wake up call.

[tcmgpt13]

Thanks, Carla. From your post it is plain to see you are one of the many winners found here at MDR. I think it is faith which sustains us through hard times, guides us to find the answers we need and the grace to see that we needed to change our lives in some way. You say it well. It is a wake up call. I am so glad to hear you and the children are doing such better from changes in diet and health care.

tcm

[jonsi]

"M" was a wake up call for my little family too!

Now we pay attention to the foods we eat and what kind of medicine we take. Totally homeopathic/natural medicine only. No vaccines again!

My lymph massage therapist said from the very beginning that I should not play the "victim" & that I could work through whatever what was making me sick. It does take some hard work to get though this "M" and it does require discipline.

Some people believe that MD's are going to write a prescription(s) and will be cured! If that were the case all of us would be cured instead of being called "delusional", cuz there "ain't" no pharmaceutical drug that works for "M". (Temporarily maybe, but the symptoms get worse in the long run.)

I also meditate. I can't call it prayer because I cussed like a sailor at the "M" and said it was not welcome in my body and that it was interfering with my sovereign contract with God.... "M" interfered with my life, big time. Light a candle, burn some sage, turn on music and talk out loud (release your anger and talk from your heart).

In the white light,
~jonsi

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vic-tim

": one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent

: one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions

: one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment

: one that is tricked or duped"

Does any of these definitions fit what has happened to us?

Of course, we're victims, to say less is to negate human moral character. To me what makes us and especially the children victims is that we were not told of the dangers in contracting this disease in whatever manner it was contracted. Some group of scientists somewhere knows what is causing or possibly causing our illness and they are being quiet allowing it to perpetuate and not stepping up to help us, which should be a high crime in any profession.

If it is chemtrails, then warn us to not go out when they are spraying the skies. If it is in our food, then put some warning labels on our food to let us know. We're possibly feeding our babies Morgellons particles, for all we know? Without the information for us to make an intelligent choice about our health we automatically become victims.

And, this really irks me to no end when the people from the foreign countries think they know what the Americans are experiencing. They say, 'just eat right and mediate and you will get well'... the Brits and Germans don't have a clue as to what full-blown Morgellons is! Your strain is totally meek and mild in comparison and yes, with a few modifications YOU can get better. But, I tell you the American people are being chemically assaulted at every turn with no way to discern what is hurting them because our political system is corrupt and not 'for the people' any longer.

The German government and possibly the Brits, (I don't know,) passes every law to look out for the people. We've lost the foundation on which our government was formed - lobbyists, corporations, big pharma, Insurance companies, and Bankers own America for their benefit, the people have no power at all unless they complain in large numbers all at once so that their voice can be heard.

You say to eat organic food and to make those choices. Our food is not labeled and even the organic label is not being monitored, it is just as contaminated as the non-organic. 80% of the food in America is corrupt and I believe that number is low. How can these people hope to get well when they can't choose what to put in their bodies? And, we have those amongst us that say... just 'fiddle while Rome burns'. How can we meditate when we are constantly tormented with lesions, when we can't function because these chemicals have short-circuited our brains, as we lose our homes, as we struggle to comfort our children, as we try to work and carry on a normal existence?

Don't you think the CDC and our health care professionals - after telling us we're delusional - want us to go home and lay down and be quiet? Don't you think they are taking note of how we don't seem to complain too much, how this isn't killing us quickly, how we appear to be somewhat ok, no!, this isn't ok to be quiet about! They are thinking for us to drink more of the tap water and it will keep us complacent. Some people are so sick with this disease that they can't speak up for themselves and we certainly can't have a few that have had a mild case or foreign countries that have gotten better represent us, which is what has happened.

Heck yes, we're victims, we need to speak out, the squeaky wheel gets the oil everytime.

[carla]

[quote]And, this really irks me to no end when the people from the foreign countries think they know what the Americans are experiencing. They say, 'just eat right and mediate and you will get well'... the Brits and Germans don't have a clue as to what full-blown Morgellons is! Your strain is totally meek and mild in comparison and yes, with a few modifications YOU can get better. But, I tell you the American people are being chemically assaulted at every turn with no way to discern what is hurting them because our political system is corrupt and not 'for the people' any longer.

The German government and possibly the Brits, (I don't know,) passes every law to look out for the people. We've lost the foundation on which our government was formed - lobbyists, corporations, big pharma, Insurance companies, and Bankers own America for their benefit, the people have no power at all unless they complain in large numbers all at once so that their voice can be heard.

Believe me Kammy, We are under the same assault as you.
l ve been covered in sores and suicidal in the past.
When l was eating processed foods and thinking like you do.
Anyway Meditation proved to cure heart disease in a recent study.

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Carla, I'm not attacking you or Britian, we have good reason to say what we say, usually from first-hand experience or from what we can read. If a Morgie from Europe has come to the U.S. recently and ate the food, drank the water and lived in a Morg environment, their strain of Morgellons is going to be different. We are strongly suspecting this and are about to prove this through blood testing, etc.

We can see that the U.S. patents are out of hand, they are doing some very questionable modifications with the food. I see an article that says Britian started rebelling in 1999, well, by 1999 the damage was already done in the U.S. and has continued at an expotential rate. In the U.S. no group is there to stop them, monitor them, police them....etc.

I believe the English got some 'sense' about them and slowed it down, that your country is a part of the EU, and has a watchdog group to protect the people.

National Centre for Biotechnology Education | Genetically Modified Food

"The most recent (2002) Eurobarometer survey conducted by the European Commission noted that 1999 was indeed the turning point in Europeans' attitudes to GM food."

Sure, we need to find inspiration in our desperation, like the artist that lost their hands and started painting with their feet. We cannot wallow in our misery but... at least let us know what our misery is so that we can fight it better? Some are capable of stabbing at windmills easier than others, it seems that there is no one correct nor easy answer for solving this.

[pat]

Just like to point out that I converse with someone in the US and she has the same symptoms that I have,she has exactly the same issues in her garden as I do and we have swopped pics and it looks the same.Also many things she has on her body are the same as I have.
I am sure that there are thousands in England who have it and because they have their noses to the grindstone don't realise it.Then they go to the GP and come out with the usual rubbish 'you have a virus/or fibromyalgia etc/its because the immune system is turning on its own body' etc etc yawn yawn.So they just go on feeling ill till they hit the menopause and then THATS the reason..why they have even invented a MALE menopause now.Get over that then its OLD AGE.Its prob this malady thats the cause of old age.
The English have no sense at all Kammy.Most don't look up to the sky and wonder what the pretty lines are..and they have been growing GM here in trials for quite some time.They reckoned to bury the harvest..if you believe that. We import much food and grain which has GM in it. But the people..well the people are more concerned about who did the latest murder in the most popular soap! In my nastier moments which are becoming more frequent..I feel like taking some blow up pics of the parasites that are sat on the herbs brought from the big supermarket and sticking them on lamp posts..that should start a state of terror going.lol.I haven't seen any rebellions going on here except the numptys who want to start killing foxes again for 'sport'....now THERES a bunch of nerds who could do to do battle with the morgs.
Personally the part about England being part of the EU and they look out for the people I think is a falsehood...we have the most toxic government this country has ever had.The population here did not want to join the EU..(I mean who would) but Brown went ahead and did it.Many countries have been coerced into it.And we all know the reason. We are now dictated to and watched over more than any other country in the world per head of population.What amazes me is everyone just accepts this...as if their minds have been put into neutral gear.LOL
The truth came out in yesterdays paper about how bad the banking fiasco was here.They 'didn't tell the public so as not to create a a state of terror'.We were one weekend away from all the banks closing..no credit cards no cash no food etc. Wonder how they would have looked after us then!
For any Brits who are concerned about chemtrails there is an online petition to Downing St
Petition to: explain and investigate as to the content of the mysterious white chemtrails (contrails) that are commonly sprayed from aircraft at high attitude and do not disappear for some hours.. | Number10.gov.uk please sign and pass it on to any concerned Brits..the few anyway that have noticed odd things in the sky.
Carla have you morphed into a Jehovah what not?If so don't come here and tell me the world is ending like they did before...or I'll say the same thing to you as I said to them..LOL
And check out Alex Fergies face.THATS what the hairdryer treatment is all about.LOL Yes he has a dose.Pop over and give him some advice.

[carla]

We are all under the same Government already.Like everything else we are informed of things after the event.

Pat, Don't worry,I won't Bash you with my Bible because its on a CD so I'd break it.
And l won't be converting to anything.
Nothing worse than organised religion.

[tcmgpt13]

Well, Carla, if we decide to convert (not too interested organized religion myself) we will have to become Mormons, who as far as I know, are the only religious group who teach their members to store food long term for a future catastrophic event. I have to say I am not happy about many of the teachings in this church, but they are sensible about this issue.