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Michal Ansky on the paralysis in her face: "I stop dreaming about time machines and miracle drugs" | Israel today

2022-09-08T06:54:44.229Z


The "MasterChef" judge uploaded a post from the depths of her heart in which she told about her difficult struggle with the sudden paralysis she suffered over three years ago


Michal Ansky told last night (Wednesday) in a post she uploaded to the social network Instagram about the demonic dance going on in her mind since she was diagnosed with Bell's palsy in the spring of 2019 and lost control of the muscles in half of her face. In a plain text, she talked about the difficult and prolonged mental state she was in due the disease, and for the encouragement and reinforcement she received from her relatives, which was in complete contrast to her inner voices about the body's betrayal.

"It's not my smile, this smile is crooked and ugly. All people see when they look at me is the island of symmetry left by the paralysis," Ansky shared at the beginning of her speech her thoughts that had not given her rest for a very long time.

"All these sentences were like flashing neon signs in my mind. Zero control over self-criticism," she testified.

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"I continued forward in doing and fulfilling and I chose to believe the doctors and therapists who promised that it would go smoothly," she shared the hope that was planted in her.

"I didn't realize for the first two years that this was post-traumatic stress disorder. The diagnosis came, and with it the realization that the paralysis I suffered and the treatments that didn't help were an event of ongoing trauma. What I interpreted as a hormonal imbalance turned out to be a mental illness," she shared.

"The voices outside 'what nonsense, look how you look two weeks after giving birth', 'no one looks at the lips', 'what are you upset about this nonsense', she quoted. "And inside everything is reduced to a very violent betrayal of the body.

It is about paralysis, and it is found and nothing can really cure it until the end.

In Israel they know almost nothing about the chronic disease I suffer from."

Towards the end of her speech, she shared, as mentioned, the conclusions she reached.

"Then I understood. I realized that what I need to heal is not the smile, but the head. And I chose to put an end to this dizziness. So many good things happened as a result of the paralysis. I have enormous love. I am working on loving what is crooked, I am the one. And I'm really great. The person I was is no longer here, and I stop dreaming about time machines and miracle cures. I'm not 'the way I look'. You've already accepted me like that," she addressed the audience, "now I just have to accept too."

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Source: israelhayom

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