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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hope4Now" data-source="post: 1191170" data-attributes="member: 24896">I am having a challenging day. Yesterday I spent the whole session with the psychiatrist discussing this issue of resting vs. pushing myself to do things. The answer is always "listen to your body." Well, hell, my body sends me a lot of very confusing messages. So generally I just push until I KNOW I'm near crashing. She says not to do this...that I will just keep making myself sick. "But!" I insisted, "I can't just stay in bed all day!" And she says maybe I need to. I simply cannot wrap my head around this. She claims it is not the medication that is making me exhausted. Perhaps she is right. Perhaps it is the fibromyalgia. But if I didn't have my alarm, and the gargantuan list of things to do, I would probably end up in bed all day. This seems wrong to me. But she says, "You're sick. You need rest. You need to accept this." AAAAAGH. She says, "It takes a lot of energy just being you." Well, LOL, she's right about that one! I suppose I know she is right. I don't want her to be right. I just want to have energy and feel better. This argument has been going on since I started therapy. Maybe I will have to experiment with it. Maybe I can stay in bed with no alarms for a week. I am having surgery on Tuesday, so that will probably crash me out for a week anyway.</blockquote>