About 6 months ago, I was diagnosed with Graves Disease. I have gone through RAI and was feeling reasonable good for a few months. I've recently gone hypothyroid, and with that have felt really terrible, tired, anxious etc. I'm told that this is normal to the condition but my husband is getting frustrated and telling me that I think about it too much. Gayle Peterson Gayle Peterson, MSSW, PhD is a family therapist specializing in prenatal and family development.
Illness requires a family to reorganize.
This can precipitate crisis, as the family works through the initial stages of change. Especially when the person who is sick plays a major role in caretaking others. Chronic illness can be particularly taxing due to a vacillation between crisis states and states of normality. Adapting to your illness may bring up tremendous feelings of loss for you as well as your husband. Feelings may give birth to fears, some of which may be real while others are not.