Social Life Challenges
A person’s social life includes a number of areas:
- Interactions with family and friends, which can include romantic partners, children, brothers and sisters, parents, and extended family.
- Interactions with people and organizations related to your health conditions (e.g., ASOs, support groups).
- Interactions with people and organizations of interest to you, such as hobby groups and churches.
Challenges in your social life may be due to a number of factors:
- Fatigue or weakness making it hard to leave the home or to stay out with friends as long as you might like.
- Pain making it difficult to engage in regular social activities.
- Digestive issues that make you worry about leaving the home or having people over.
- A lack of motivation to go out and get involved.
- Feeling down or anxious might make it hard to get out and interact.
Treatment involves overcoming these challenges:
- The treatments for fatigue described earlier can help you improve your fitness and conserve your energy so you can get around the way you want.
- The treatments for weakness described earlier can help you build the needed strength.
- The treatments for pain described earlier can help you move with less pain.
- The treatments for digestive issues described earlier can help you feel more confident leaving the home.
- The treatments for feeling down/depressed and anxious listed earlier can help with those issues.
Other Rehabilitation Therapies
- If you are facing a lack of motivation, a social worker can explore that with you and suggest some ways to overcome it.