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Chronic Illness: Why We Don’t Talk About It and What Needs to Change

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When you think about it, we talk about everything else. We talk about our families, our jobs, our vacations. But when it comes to chronic illness, we clam up. Why is that? Over 157 million people in the US have 1 or more chronic illnesses and yet we don’t talk about them. Maybe it’s because …

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Why Your Man Spends So Much Time in the Bathroom

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Urination is an important function of the body, but as men age it can become more difficult, time consuming, and frustrating. Urination may be painful, difficult, or impossible for men due to various causes such as an enlarged prostate due to Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Men tend to suffer in silence with urination problems. A …

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Why Me? How Did I End Up Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness?

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Hey everybody. It’s Matt Cavallo from Situation Positive. I want to talk to you today about putting together the pieces of your chronic illness, where it might’ve come from. How did it get diagnosed? Why was it you who ended up with the condition that you had? I was diagnosed with MS in 2005. And …

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What Drug Companies Don’t Want You to Know

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Introduction: The high cost of prescription drugs Prescription drug prices have been increasing at alarming rates in recent years, leaving many people struggling to afford the medications they need. The high cost of prescription drugs can have a devastating impact on patients’ health and finances, leading some people to forgo treatment or to ration their …

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I am not a Model

Leave a Comment / Blog / By Matt Cavallo

Hey everybody, it’s Matt from Situation Positive and I’m not a t-shirt model, but I’ve been getting a lot of comments lately about the t-shirts I wear in my videos. And at Situation Positive, we developed a line of t-shirts. So that way, you know, you could share positive messages with those around you. If …

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Belly Fat and Chronic Illness Week 5

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Hey everybody. It is Matt Cavallo and I’m checking in with you on my weight loss journey. Now last week ended our medical weight loss journey. That was the first month of the program. Where we were eating certain foods and we were also having medication to help aid us to get the weight loss …

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What It’s Like to be Diagnosed with MS

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I remember it like it was yesterday. It was May 2005. My wife just woke me up because she was going to work. She was a school counselor and she would leave a lot earlier than I did. So she would wake me up before she left to say goodbye. I had to get up. …

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Happy Rare Disease Day!

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Hey everybody. It’s Matt from Situation Positive, and I want to wish you all a Happy Rare Diseases Day! Did you know that across the world, there are more than 300 million people living with a rare disease? And unlike MS, which I have and is the most common neurological disorder, a lot of people …

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How to anticipate stressful events

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Hey everybody, it’s Matt from Situation Positive. If you’re living with a chronic illness, like I am, you know, that stress is the enemy. So what are some of the ways you could combat stress? One of the ways, and the way that I want to focus on in this video is to anticipate a …

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Walking Stairs with a chronic illness

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Hey, it’s Matt from Situation Positive out here on a jungle hike. And we’re on a lot of stairs. Stairs are increasingly tough. Make sure you use the rails. Make sure you look where you’re stepping and if you’re like me, let your family go ahead of you. You’ll get there soon enough. Remember, get …

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Chronic Illness: Why We Don’t Talk About It and What Needs to Change

Why Your Man Spends So Much Time in the Bathroom

Why Me? How Did I End Up Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness?

What Drug Companies Don’t Want You to Know

I am not a Model

Belly Fat and Chronic Illness Week 5

What It’s Like to be Diagnosed with MS

Happy Rare Disease Day!

How to anticipate stressful events

Walking Stairs with a chronic illness

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