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A Blueprint for an Extraordinary Life | Dr Linda Friedland | TEDxRAIUL
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I remember this moment so clearly – it was the moment that I thought "this is IT" "This is the end of my life".

 

 I was sitting under a huge beautiful Oak tree in a friend's garden at a celebration.  Must have been about 60 people there. My two youngest children next two me- a 6-month old baby in a push chair and my then two-year old son.

 

In this moment- almost everything went black.  I couldn't see.

 

To be accurate…it was only half blacked out –the bottom half. I could see the foreheads of both my boys. I could see the top branches of the oak tree… but everything else was black.

I knew I was in trouble. And I tried to communicate this to the person sitting next to me. But I couldn't articulate couldn't get any words out.

 

This was almost 20 years ago.  And I remember it now as clearly as it was then.

I was taken urgently to the academic hospital, rushed in for a CT scan and what I remember from lying in the tunnel of the scanner was an image in my head of being buried. I was so sure this was the end.  

 

Thank Goodness there was no brain haemorrhage, no clot ,no brain tumor- the things I was suspecting. (Its very hard as a medical doctor not to imagine the worst). After weeks and weeks of hospital investigations and possible suggested diagnoses, the diagnosis was called 

a RIND – Reversible Ischaemic Neurological Deficit- a term that is actually no longer used. Reversible but nevertheless serious.

 

Within about 48 hrs I recovered from the visual and speech disturbance. But this was followed by 6  months of severe daily migraines and at least a year of intense fatigue (a very strange experience). It took many years to regain my real strength. I had been a marathon runner. I had five small children and a very busy medical practice …no doubt I had been under huge pressure. But didn't quite realise. A disconnect. It was a frightening frightening experience.

 

Undoubtedly I had experienced a type of shutdown, a 'burnout', The term Burnout is not quite a medical or scientific one. However, it does describe that experience of hitting the wall. 

 

Is there anyone here who has ever experienced something similar? Maybe to a lesser or greater degree?

 

The moment where you hit the wall, you fall off the edge… and you know that something has to change?

 
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