Do you think suffering becomes easier

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Does suffering become easier to bear the more you suffer?

Or do you think you have a threshold of how many situatuons make you suffer, and thats your limit?

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Not noticing it this month.

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It doesnt become easier.

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@anon82948922 @LevelJ1 I have heard it toughens your skin, but I have my doubts about itā€¦

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Some things you adjust to to a certain degree and some things become easier with the passage of time. But I donā€™t think everything will always set back to zero in the end. Some things remain, at least partially.

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Great suffering in the past has led to lesser suffering in the present sort of not mattering to me

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I disagree with the whole you need to suffer to get stronger crap.

You can very well get stronger without needless suffering.

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i think it becomes easier

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There comes a point where youā€™ve suffered enough. Then things get better.

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The real suffering was the first 2 1/2 years after I got diagnosed. Life is a piece of cake now compared to that.

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I would think that suffering is at its most intensive during the initial stages of psychotic episodes, psychosis or extreme symptoms of hallucinations, delusions and paranoia. Suffering does become easier as one gains insights & experience into this mental health disease we are all suffering from. Reminded that taking anti-psychotic medication is mandatory if one is to improve their progress.

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Suffering can help make you more resilient in the long run as in maybe the suffering wonā€™t break you as easily, but it hurts just as much every damn time and it would be nice to take a break from it.

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Yes.

Iā€™ve been dealing with my husbandā€™s progressing kidney disease for more than a year.

Each flare of vertigo, or colored urine, or the crises after his two surgeries? That just piles on another rock to crush me under the weight a little bit more.

This hurts as much every damn time and breaks between symptom flares only last a day or two.

Iā€™m really effing worn out. We see the kidney specialist on April 9, when itā€™s likely weā€™ll be told Chris has moved into stage 3 kidney disease. Iā€™m trying to prepare myself, but nothing will take away a bit of suffering on either of our parts.

I just learned about the concept of ā€œanticipatory griefā€ today. Iā€™m looking into resources.

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Itā€™s all about attitude

No matter how bad your life is, donā€™t let it make you bitter or people will avoid you

Bitter people are no fun to be around

I learned this lesson from growing up around someone very bitter

EDIT: Not sure if I answered your question, more to the point, I only consider it suffering if itā€™s actively causing me pain, and I accepted my situation a few years back and havenā€™t suffered since. My life isnā€™t great but Iā€™m not bitter and Iā€™m not in active pain.

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Yes

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I love the saying ā€œlife doesnā€™t get easier, we just get stronger.ā€

Although, in my current mental state and with everything going on in my life that phrase can piss off. Iā€™m going through a trying time that seems worse than anything Iā€™ve dealt with before. The problem is, I say that every time I go through trials and tribulations.

I never FEEL stronger. I just try to muddle my way through the mess without doing something irreversibly stupid.

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Hereā€™s another concept:

Allostatic loading.

Google it. Itā€™s depressing. Itā€™s also why I look like hell.

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I googled it
This is why I look 40 years old

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Before you reach puberty, too.

OUCH.

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Depends on the sufferingšŸ˜š

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