<small>Go back to Blog catalogue: [[Blog - Home]]</small> -------------- When you're in a position to doubt your experiences, despite the very real truth of **blood** shifting up and down your body and being inundated with stress hormones (**norepinephrine**) as a consequence of your body trying to compensate for your inability to counteract the forces of **gravitational pull** and the many more implications that POTS has on your body, not only do you lose yourself in the fury of **frustration** and **desperation**, but time slows down to an immeasurable degree. It feels like you've lived through countless lifetimes in an alternate reality painted in deep **dissociation**, squandering your ability to find any semblance of **grounding**. However, once you overcome this distorted perception, you'll find that piecing back together the many shards you've been shattered into gives you the ability to distinguish between the feeble and vital nature of what makes you up. This ultimately greatly enhances the value of the reassembled person that is you. So, no, you may not be the same person to a substantial degree at the end of this journey, but rather an improved version capable of navigating the nuances and subtleties of what once might have been an unresolved **enigma**. Don't ever cease to push through the **impotence** that this unapparent disease brings because, however out of reach **hope** may seem, it is the needle of an invaluable compass that will guide you not only through the art of enduring and navigating the treacherous field of validation and treatment, but into the reward of **prospering** beyond POTS itself. Remain **persistent** and trust yourself, document your experiences if you must and don't waver in your resolve to bring about the return of normalcy. Your voice is the only evidence that initiates your ticket out of what must feel like incomprehensible misery.