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Dida-isms

Dida-isms

Chronic Pain. Anxiety. Addiction. Fibromyalgia.

These are either snippets of info, quotes from my stories, or just little thoughts I’ve had that I think others may relate to. I felt there needed to be a collection for people to view whenever they need a laugh, inspiration, or just to relate.

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Dida-isms Page: Graphics with quotes from my stories (or my head,) that are inspirational, funny, or just plain true about chronic illness, pain, anxiety, and more.

I really put quite a bit of effort into these graphics. I spend a lot of time obsessing about which colors and fonts to use, and try to make them adaptable for everyone. If you would like any Dida-isms in a particular color or type, contact me and we can discuss it. I want people to be able to use them wherever they are needed. To look through all, just keep scrolling. To go directly to the Dida-isms of a specific type, you can use these links:

Chronic Pain/Illness- Pinterest Size

Chronic Pain/Illness- Instagram Size

Anxiety Dida-isms- Pinterest

Anxiety Dida-isms- Instagram

Addiction Dida-isms- Pinterest

Addiction Dida-isms- Instagram

Fibromyalgia Dida-isms- Pinterest

Fibromyalgia Dida-isms- Instagram

Grief Dida-isms- Pinterest

Grief Dida-isms- Instagram

Money-Related Dida-isms- Pinterest

Money-Related Dida-isms- Instagram

Relationship Dida-isms- Pinterest

Relationship Dida-isms- Instagram

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Addiction Dida-isms (Instagram)

  • Addiction: It's agonizing knowing someone is out there you love but you can't have them in your life because a drug controls them.
  • Aren't you tired of addiction? Tired of trying to get your next fix? Tired of trying to make up excuse after excuse & forgetting your lies? Tired of people being mad at you? Tired of feeling guilty? Tired of doing things you never thought you'd do. Tired of a drug controlling every thought? Stop. Take control back. It can be done..addiction kills & destroys. Sobriety saves & heals. Get clean

Addiction Dida-isms (Pinterest)

  • Addiction: It's agonizing knowing someone is out there you love, but you can't have them in your life becauwe a drug has control over them. Reach out for helo. Get clean
  • Addiction: You ARE NOT too smart to OD. You DON'T have it under control, You're killing yourself and tearing those that love you apart. Sobriety Saves. Reach out. Get clean
  • Aren't you tired of addiction? Tired of trying to get your next fix? Tired of trying to make up excuse after excuse & forgetting your lies? Tired of people being mad at you? Tired of feeling guilty? Tired of doing things you never thought you'd do. Tired of a drug controlling every thought? Stop. Take control back. It can be done..addiction kills & destroys. Sobriety saves & heals. Get clean
  • I'm sick of funerals, sick of crying, sick of overdoses, sick of the wasted potential & what could have been & destroyed families & dreams, sick of all the lying & devastated seeing children growing up without their parents, many times continuing the cycle. Stop killing yourself- Get clean.
  • Even one drink is enough to start someone with a predisposition to alcoholism or addiction down a dangerous path; yet we continue to normalize social drinking while expecting the addiction crisis to improve.
  • To make is safe for chronic pain patients to use opiates, we need to: *make stricter monitoring programs for pharmaceutical companies, the actual pharmacies & doctors, & enforce them. *require ALL medical professionals to be re-educated on how to properly manage pain in their chronic pain patients & taught an entirely new way of monitoring & educating the patient *educate people starting in elementary & continuing through adulthood
  • Addicts are masters at rationalizing their drug use.
  • Addiction: Once you've made it to a certain point in your dependency, the why doesn't really matter anymore because your drug of choice becomes the why.
  • Addiction: Blaming, shaming, ignoring, neglecting, pitying, or hating drug addicts will not do anything to help the problem that is affecting so many people in this country

Anxiety Dida-isms (Instagram)

  • Anxiety Tips: 1. Do your research. Knowledge helps fight anxiety. 2. Slow down & breathe. 3. Find a technique that helps you during a panic attack. 4. Talk it out, or write it down. 5. Start a daily anxiety management routine. 4. Join a support group. You don't have to talk, just read, or listen.
    Anxiety Tips Dida-ism
  • Anxiety Makes you question every decision, even when you know you're right, because of the "what if's" running through your head
  • Anxiety: Staring at the ringing phone, trying to convince yourself the world won't end if you answer it.
  • Anxiety can feel hopeless when the fear from doubting everything is mistaken for a lack of motivation
  • Without Anxiety: Small decisions: What to wear around the house. Somewhat more important: Where to go on a date. Major decisions: Which house to buy. Life or death: Healthcare decisions. WITH ANXIETY: Life or death decisions: What to wear around the house, Where to go on a date, Which house to buy,Healthcare decisions.
  • Anxiety makes decision-making so hard that even the smallest decisions seem overwhelming
  • “YOU AREN'T THINKING OF EVERYTHING. YOU'RE MISSING SOMETHING AND IT'S GOING TO MAKE THE ENTIRE WORLD CRUMBLE AROUND YOU. IF YOU DON'T CHOOSE THE RIGHT THING FOR DINNER, YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE WILL SUFFER! IF YOU DON'T GET EVERYTHING DONE PERFECTLY, EVERYTHING WILL BE RUINED……”
  • Tools To Battle Anxiety: Create a daily management routine, Use healthy aggression relieving techniques, Try the Logic Challenge, Find healthy distractions, Yoga, essential oils, & meditation, Use meds when needed, conservatively, Use the Anxiety Cards, Use the 54321 technique
  • When Anxiety is involved, a small concern can turn into an overwhelming, irrational, obsessive fear that leads to abnormal behavior that we wouldn't usually see as reasonable.
  • There is not an easy fix for anxiety. all you can do is accept that it will affect you & be prepared with grounding techniques when it does.
  • Blogging With Anxiety: Me: They commented on my stuff! I need to comment back. Anxiety: What are you gonna say? Me: I don't know, but I have to interact. Anxiety: Whatever you write is gonna sound stupid, or sappy, or just awkward. You're reeeaaall good at awkward. Me: I really hate you.

Anxiety Dida-isms (Pinterest)

  • Anxiety Dida-ism (Pinterest)
    Anxiery Tips Dida-ism
  • Anxiety: Staring at the ringing phone, trying to convince yourself the world WON'T end if you answer it.
    Anxiety Dida-ism
  • Anxiety makes you question every decision, even when you KNOW you're right because of the endless "what if's" running through your head
  • Anxiety makes decision-making so hard that even the smallest decisions seem overwhelming
  • Health Anxiety Dida-ism: Use the logic challenge
    Health Anxiety Dida-ism
  • Anxiety can feel hopeless when the fear from doubting everything is mistaken for a lack of motivation
  • Blogging With Anxiety: Me: They commented on my stuff! I need to comment back. Anxiety: What are you gonna say? Me: I don't know, but I have to interact. Anxiety: Whatever you write is gonna sound stupid, or sappy, or just awkward. You're reeeaaall good at awkward. Me: I really hate you.
  • Without Anxiety: Small decisions: What to wear around the house. Somewhat more important: Where to go on a date. Major decisions: Which house to buy. Life or death: Healthcare decisions. WITH ANXIETY: Life or death decisions: What to wear around the house, Where to go on a date, Which house to buy,Healthcare decisions.
  • When Anxiety is involved, a small concern can turn into an overwhelming, irrational, obsessive fear that leads to abnormal behavior that we wouldn't usually see as reasonable.
  • Tools To Battle Anxiety: Create a daily management routine, Use healthy aggression relieving techniques, Try the Logic Challenge, Find healthy distractions, Yoga, essential oils, & meditation, Use meds when needed, conservatively, Use the Anxiety Cards, Use the 54321 technique
  • There is not an easy fix for anxiety. all you can do is accept that it will affect you & be prepared with grounding techniques when it does.

Chronic Pain/Illness Dida-isms (Instagram Size)

  • Chronic Pain Dida-ism: People with chronic pain don't want your sympathy, we just want you to try to understand- we're fighting an invisible enemy, and do the best we can.More on writtenbydida.com
    Chronic Pain Dida-ism (Pinterest)
  • Chronic Pain makes walking up just
  • Chronic Illness: Sometimes, when all the negativity, symptoms, and emotions are getting to you- all you can do is stop and breathe.
  • chronic pain can make minutes feel like hours
  • Chronic Illness: Sometimes, when all the negativity, symptoms, and emotions are getting to you- all you can do is stop and breathe.
  • Chronic Illness: When brain fog causes you to put your clothes on backwards, and pain & exhaustion make you leave them that way
  • Chronic Illness: When you're CONSTANTLY trying to get just ONE MORE thing done before your body decides to shutdown
  • The reality of living with chronic illness: When you're no longer considered a productive member of society, it feels like you've been put on the back burner of life.
  • Bad Pain Days
  • The Reality of Chronic Illness: "Society expects us to function at a level we just aren’t capable of, and when we don’t, they judge us, whether they mean to, or not."
  • Chronic Illness: If you aren't around at all because you pushed yourself right into something you can't recover from, How is that good for YOU or your loved ones? self-care must be a priority
  • Chronic Illness; When you've pushed yourself too far: Brain: "You have to clean" "Someone needs you," You're so worthless," "Why can't you do more?""It shouldn't take that long to recover," "People think you're just lazy." Body: "Hahahahahahahaha No."
  • Chronic Illness- My brain has a brain of it's own. So does half my body. I get, maybe 1/3 of a say in what either of them do.

Chronic Pain/Illness Dida-isms (Pinterest Size)

  • Chronic Pain Dida-ism: People with chronic pain don't want your sympathy, we just want you to try to understand- we're fighting an invisible enemy, and do the best we can. More on writtenbydida.com
    Chronic Pain Dida-ism (Pinterest)
  • Chronic Pain can make minutes feel like hours
    Chronic Pain Dida-ism
  • Chronic Illness: Sometimes, when all the negativity, symptoms, and emotions are getting to you- all you can do is stop and breathe.
  • Chronic Illness: When brain fog causes you to put your clothes on backwards, and pain & exhaustion make you leave them that way
  • Chronic Illness: When you're CONSTANTLY trying to get just ONE MORE thing done before your body decides to shutdown
  • The Reality of Chronic Illness: "Society expects us to function at a level we just aren’t capable of, and when we don’t, they judge us, whether they mean to, or not."
  • Chronic Illness: If you aren't around at all because you pushed yourself right into something you can't recover from, How is that good for YOU or your loved ones? self-care must be a priority
  • The reality of Chronic Illness: When you're no longer considered a productive member of society it feels like you've been put on the back burner of life.

Fibromyalgia Dida-isms (Instagram)

  • Fibromyalgia: When simply taking a shower feels like you just ran a few miles, then jumped in the shower after a very long day. More on writtenbydida.com
  • Fibromyalgia: When just getting dressed feels like you've spent hours at the mall, walking around, trying on outfits. More on writtenbydida.com
  • Fibromyalgia: When running the sweeper in one room feels like you've just done 100 pull-ups
  • Fibromyalgia: When making the bed is enough to make you go back to sleep
  • 1. Accept help without stressing. 2. Visually chart adequate prep & recovery time- then USE it 3. Systematically eliminate foods & other substances 4. Chart activities and their affects to determine what you can handle 5. Do light stretching & mental self-care & take meds at same time daily
  • Fibromyalgia Types of Pain Dida-ism
  • Fibromyalgia can make just sitting down on a toilet seat feel like sitting on knives. Writtenbydida.com
  • Fibromyalgia makes you dread that precise second you have to sit down & the pain shoots sharply through the "pinpoint" areas, then spreads theough the lower back & up your spine. Every. Single. Time. writtenbydida.com

Fibromyalgia Dida-isms (Pinterest Size)

  • 1. Accept help without stressing. 2. Visually chart adequate prep & recovery time- then USE it 3. Systematically eliminate foods & other substances 4. Chart activities and their affects to determine what you can handle 5. Do light stretching & mental self-care & take meds at same time daily
    Tips For Managing Fibromyalgia
  • Fibromyalgia Types Of Pain
    Fibromyalgia Types Of Pain
  • Fibromyalgia: When simply taking a shower feels like you just ran a few miles, then jumped in the shower after a very long day. More on writtenbydida.com
    Fibromyalgia Dida-ism (Instagram)
  • Fibromyalgia: When just getting dressed feels like you've spent hours at the mall, walking around, trying on outfits. More on writtenbydida.com
    Fibromyalgia Dida-ism (Pinterest)
  • Fibromyalgia: When running the sweeper in one room feels like you've just done 100 pull-ups
  • Fibromyalgia: When making the bed is enough to make you go back to sleep

General (Instagram)

  • Tips for Young Adults & Teenagers Dida-ism Instagram
    Tips for Young Adults & Teenagers Dida-ism Instagram
  • Be real, be compassionate, Treat Everyone The Same
  • Being kind doesn't require being all about sparkles and sunshine, or having an outgoing personality. you can wear all black, or have social anxiety, and still be compassionate.
  • Dida's Life Lessons: You have the freedom to choose your behavior & attitude. You do NOT get to choose how someone reacts to them. Accept responsibility. (writtenbydida.com)
  • Don't Give Up writtenbydida.com
  • IF YOU ARE THE BOSS and have employees working OUTSIDE in this heat, you need to be giving them breaks every 15 minutes unless you want to end up liable for someone getting heat stroke. I'm dead serious. Too many people don't recognize this and expect people to just deal with it because they are getting paid. That's not how it works. You have a responsibility as an employer to be REASONABLE.
  • Accept your mistakes, recognize where you can improve, and make whatever change is required
  • Live Your Life To Be A Good Person, Not To Look Good To Others
  • You can NOT control someone else's feelings, opinions, or actions.

General (Pinterest)

  • Tips For Young Adults & Teenagers Dida-ism
    Tips For Young Adults & Teenagers
  • Being kind doesn't require being all about sparkles and sunshine, or having an outgoing personality. you can wear all black, or have social anxiety, and still be compassionate.
  • Dida's Life Lessons: You have the freedom to choose your behavior & attitude. You do NOT get to choose how someone reacts to them. Accept responsibility. (writtenbydida.com)
  • Don't Give Up writtenbydida.com
  • Live Your Life To Be A Good Person, Not To Look Good To Others
  • Accept your mistakes, recognize where you can improve, and make whatever change is required
  • You can NOT control someone else's feelings, opinions, or actions.
  • Be real, be compassionate, Treat Everyone The Same

Grief Dida-isms (Pinterest)

Grief Dida-isms (Instagram)

Money-Related (Instagram)

  • For every item you purchase on a credit card, figure out how many months it will take you to pay it back, then take the overall price and multiply it by the interest rate. Multiply that number by however many months it will take, then add it to the price to see what you are really paying for each item-IF YOU MAKE THE FULL PAYMENT ON-TIME EVERY MONTH.
  • Tips for Saving Money on Gas

Money-Related (Pinterest)

Relationship Dida-isms (Instagram)

  • Some people will never be happy, no matter how much you give of yourself, but you can only give so much before theres nothing left. Don't keep running on empty for those who wouldn't do it for you.
  • Any relationship will fall apart if you let it. They require effort to thrive.
  • There is a difference between a relationship that has had struggles to overcome, and a relationship that has been a struggle to overcome

Relationship Dida-isms (Pinterest)

  • Any relationship will fall apart if you let it. They require effort to thrive.
  • There is a difference between a relationship that has had struggles to overcome, and a relationship that has been a struggle to overcome
  • You can only give so much of yourself, before there's nothing left. Don't run on empty for those who wouldn't do the same for you.
    General Dida-isms

Original Dida-isms (All Topics)

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Gina

    9 Jul 2019 Reply

    Lovely post! Thanks for sharing these inspirational quotes.

    1. Candida Reece

      Candida Reece

      9 Jul 2019 Reply

      Thank you! I try to make a couple of graphics a week at least💜

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