In order to reduce our natural tendency to become impatient, we must inject conscious thought into the equation. If we can use our intelligence to effectively administer a treatment protocol, we can surely use it to persuade and change the course of mental thinking of the situation. One must generate a conscious understanding of their circumstances. By doing so, you attain all the information reflecting your circumstances, thus ultimately allowing you to respond accordingly. You perceive your circumstances and as long as the process of treatment unfolds in the manner expected, patience will naturally develop and become the new coping response. Though a person's impatience with Lyme Disease will never truly disappear, through rationality of their situation, a person can develop just enough conscious patience to override their instinctive impatience. This process will likely have to be utilized many times throughout the course of treatment until it has finally given way to remission.
One could argue that what human beings lack in immunity to effectively fight a highly evolved bacteria, they make up with intelligence. The intelligence to understand the course of destruction of our internal foe and respond with a course of treatment to not only weaken and disrupt its innate agenda, but destroy its presence entirely. When this response yields the result we desire, we secure our own survival, for now. We live to see another day and further indulge in the beauty of what it means to be alive.
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