More and more often, in recent years, we hear about Endometriosis, one chronic disease affecting women, the causes of which are still largely unknown.
But how to stay close and support a daughter, a friend or a partner who lives this condition without experiencing pain?
As marginal as it may seem, the world that revolves around women with Endometriosis can also alleviate their sense of inadequacy.
Let’s see together how.
The world that revolves around women with Endometriosis. Practical advice
Listed among the invisible diseases, Endometriosis is certainly a difficult disease to understand for those who do not experience it. Despite being particularly empathetic subjects, not feeling that type of pain on your skin is complex to understand its severity and the changes that occur in the life of a person who has been diagnosed with this pathology.
The first step to take is certainly listening: this attitude facilitates the woman who lives this condition to feel understood and accepted. It will seem trivial but, at times, during conversations we tend to look for associations and to use expressions such as “even my cycle it’s terrible ”,“ I understand, I also have excruciating pain in my back ”and the like.
The truth is that there is not an association for everything and, often, it is more convenient to let a person be free to express himself without necessarily going in search of a similarity to feel closer to the interlocutor. Again, living with an invisible disease does not mean that it is imaginary.
One action to avoid is to downplay the problem through phrases that make the woman feel uncomfortable or exaggerated. Endometriosis, like many other diseases, is not a choice and, for this reason, we must not make someone feel responsible for something for which they are not to blame. It just happens.
Acceptance
The subject involved fights both physically, following all the advice of the gynecologist and other doctors (depending on the other organs affected), but also psychologically.
Although it does not immediately catch the eye even from a psychological point of view, the pathology brings with it many aftermaths and makes the woman doubt about herself.
Therefore, avoid the spirit of denial. Denying a problem doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and building a wall or not being supportive will make the woman suffer.
This disease affects women of childbearing age. Today, it coincides with the period in which they try to fulfill themselves in work, in career, in family life. It is already difficult to put a stop to this; it should follow the acceptance of their “can’t” and the understanding by the whole world that revolves around them.
Finally, remember that sharing time talking about the topic is not a solution to the problem. However, it will certainly help her daughter, friend and partner to heal her soul and feel less alone in a very broad and complex path.
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(We remind you to carefully read the warnings in this regard, which can be consulted who”)