Is your stroke rehab half-full or half-empty?

I use this analogy in some of my posts and just today I was discussing this very topic with the owner of the lunch spot I was at.  The best comment I can give you is something my OT said to me. She said I was looking at my abilities all wrong, I was looking at what I could do the days before my stroke and comparing my current abilities to that. She was looking at my abilities in comparison to the first day she saw me lying paralyzed in a hospital bed. Her
viewpoint was that my glass was half full whereas my view was that the glass was half empty. I'm not a type A personality but all my planned recovery points were never met but I do feel more positive about my recovery because I try now to see how far I have risen rather than how far I have yet to go.
I try now to look down to see how far I have climbed rather than always looking ahead to see what is left to climb.
But hey, what do I know. Your psychiatrist should be doing this type of analysis, so ask them. Onward and upward my happy pills are coming. Woo hoo.
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