Living with constant vertigo is like being on a super sped-up, out-of-control merry-go-round: it can neither be stopped nor can you get off.
Occupational therapy is a great help. Learning to walk with vertigo, to balance your stance, how to look, where to look, what not to do. The best tip I ever got was to gaze out far into the distance & picture something in your mind that will cement you to the earth. The suggested mountain didn’t help me. What did help was picturing John Wayne in the distance, smiling at me, reaching out to steady me, hearing him tell me it was ok, that I was going to be ok & that he wasn’t going to let me fall.
It’s what works for YOU you have to find. Maybe the mountain in the distance will be all you need. Or your church. Or a giant oak tree. Or your German Shepherd. Or a Saturn V Rocket. Whatever to you is big & strong & powerful & still will stabilize you. It will give you moments of stillness that lead into minutes, that grow into hours.
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