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The UN-Glamor of Anxiety
Are you looking at UN-glamor and wondering why? Does it bother you from a purely grammatical perspective or is it causing you to pace and pull out your hair, possibly making you twitch? Anxiety can range from mild to severe, some people function very well with it and others don’t, but the interesting thing about […]
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Doctors vs Google
I bet you didn’t know there was a war brewing and in some cases being actively fought between doctors and patients and Google. What is the fight over, you might ask? Let me explain because if you aren’t knee deep in chronic illness, battling symptoms that seem to crop up new every other day, and […]
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Rant I don’t often rant, but I had a rant on Twitter yesterday. Let me explain and set up the scene for you. Yesterday, was my monthly appointment with my pain doctor. There’s a couple of things I can expect right off the bat when I go see him. First, he will be late. Not […]
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You’re Not Really Disabled
There’s been a trend in my recent writing topics, that I can only define as WTF. I’m not being very eloquent about it, but there it is. WTF stretches a broad range of experiences that I’ve discussed both in my blog and for National Pain Report. One of my doctors telling me he doesn’t believe […]
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Chronic Illness: Oh, I hope you feel better soon.
We live in a world where being polite is reflective of manners. Someone sneezes, we say “God bless you,” whether we’re Christian or Atheist. It’s not an actual blessing, as Pope Gregory the Great uttered it during bubonic plague epidemic of the sixth century. [https://people.howstuffworks.com/sneezing.htm] (Just figured I’d throw some trivia in there for you. […]
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Hellloooo!
Hello again, blogging-world. Miss me? I missed you. But I needed to take some time off for self-care. It’s been frustrating, to say the least. I think we can all agree, that when you suffer with more than one chronic illness, things can get a little hairy from time to time. Your body lets you […]
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Mental Health
Chronic mental illness defined: A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering or poor ability to function in life. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder] […]
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Grief of Chronic Illness/Pain
Yesterday, I cried. It was a hard week for me, on top of which, my partner was gone for his military duty. It’s not anything unusual, I’ve been without him for longer stretches of time. In fact, he’ll be gone for a week soon and then in the summer, three weeks. But, this small stretch […]
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The Problem With Comorbities
It all began with one chronic illness- or did it? At times, I wonder how this all began for me. I was never the poster child for health, but neither was I on the sidelines of life as much as I am now. I think if not all of us with multiple chronic conditions, then […]
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For Those Who Are Imperfect and Still Struggling: You Are My Heroes
In a land of inspirational TED talk speakers, those who’ve gone through the chaos of mental illness and come out the other side as motivational speakers, do you find yourself still struggling in your 40s and trying to keep it together? You aren’t alone. I’m not bashing those TED talks either. I applaud each and […]