Thank you to everyone who commented on my post Being Mentally Strong with Chronic Illness. From your comments I have managed to create a list of tips from the chronically ill for mental strength.

Here are our 11 Top Tips for Mental Strength:

1. Focus on the positives in any situation.

2. Listen to your body.

3. Handle the bumps in the road with poise.

4. Explore new boundaries. Do whatever it takes.

5. Find Balance.

6. Be Passionate.

7. Allow yourself to fail.

8. Be The Reed and not The Oak.

9. Pace!

10. Find joy.

11. Just breathe through it.

I’ve turned these tips into an infographic which you can see, along with a longer description of each, on the new page:

11 Top Tips for Mental Strength from the Chronically Ill

Please head over and take a look.

What do you think of our top 11 Tips?

Would you add anything else?