Affirm and Visualise

When I first learnt that I would have to inject myself every day, I was panicked, and wondered how I would ever get used to the idea. I spent the days prior to my first injection worrying sick about the prospects of having to pierce my own skin. I then remembered an inspirational story from a facilitator of a course I attended. He was a needle- phobe, and developed diabetes so was required to inject himself on a daily basis. He used affirmations and visualisations to prepare himself for the prospect of injecting.

I used this idea, and spent the three days before my first injection repeating my affirmation "I am calmly and safely injecting myself with my MS medicine". I would do this hundreds of times a day. I would wake up saying it, and go to sleep saying it. I also put a lot of energy into visualising myself injecting. I worked really hard on this, and when the time came to use Copaxone for the first time, I managed to calmly and safely inject myself with it. I have never felt anxious or nervous about injecting and I firmly believe that this was due to my preparation in using affirmations and visualisations. I often use them in my day- to- day life now.