If you spend most of your time focused on your anguish because of awful physical or emotional problems that you are enduring, you can get stuck in feelings of self-pity and hopelessness.  But there is a way to escape from that negative force – which consumes your soul and spirit:  Be insistent on changing your focus and direct your attention and actions towards others.   

You have the courage to do this.  Then you will not be stuck in your “woe is me” quagmire.  You will find the purpose and direction that you lost.  Your positive energy, which is the greater part of your essence, will begin to radiate again.  This will bring you relief and, better still, it will bring fulfillment to others.  The negative force which consumed you will ebb, and you will soon find yourself free from that emotionally dark prison.