A serious or incurable illness can bring depression, excessive sleep, poor appetite, and low energy that make you feel unlike yourself. This page explores practical coping steps, support options in Pakistan, and ways to keep prayer and worship part of your care.
It makes sense that you feel you are losing yourself. A long illness can take away your appetite, sleep, energy and the life you recognise, and depression can deepen all of that. Even when an illness has no cure, the depression and daily suffering around it can still be treated and supported.
Tell your treating doctor exactly what has changed and ask whether the illness, pain, nutrition, blood levels, medicines or depression could be contributing. These symptoms deserve care rather than being dismissed as something you must simply endure. A mental-health professional who understands chronic illness can also help you build a plan around your energy and limitations.
Make the day smaller and easier to carry:
Prayer and worship can remain a real source of strength. It is also fine to keep worship simpler on difficult days; faith and medical support do not have to compete. Let prayer steady you while other people help carry the practical load.
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