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my chronically ill best friend just said "I feel like the side effects part of a medication commercial" SO FUCKING TRUE BABE
So I was so excited
For my abnormal psych class until I got there and the professor was like I don't believe antidepressants work. He also told us about how there was an experiment where people with chronic knee pain either had surgery to help it or had a fake surgery where they did nothing but open up the leg and close it. Apparently the one with the placebo, fake surgery, was magically healed. I'm willing to bet there were other factors helping with his pain. Like he wanted to play with his grandkid so he likely tried other things to help that could have made him better rather than the fake surgery. This example was my professors way of saying the pain was all in his head.
I cried that whole class because I've spent thirteen years being sick and for the first twelve years people told me it's likely anxiety and it's all in my head. In that class I feel so invalidated and like I have gone back to being the kid that no one believes is suffering.
I’m not diagnosed as of now but there is discussion about me having PTSD. It is weird because I haven’t been through anything super traumatic aside from being sick my whole life. I haven’t ever thought that it affected me THAT much. I knew I was depressed from it but I never thought I was doing that bad with it.
The barometric pressure drops and suddenly I cannot function.
Chronic illness is ridiculous.
Image Description: A man looking exited next to a panel that reads, “The doctor thinking they’ve finally found the root of my symptoms”. The same man appears in the next panel looking shocked and it reads “‘test results normal’”.
If anybody knows if there's smth like a lobotomy but for nausea, lmk and save my life please and thank you
me: why am I nauseous?
the anti emetics sitting in my pillbox: .... I wonder why. 🤨
hey disabled friends and anyone who struggles with eating :)
when i'm not feeling well and i'm super nauseous, i'll make what we've affectionately coined a 'pick plate' it's just a mix of foods cut small that are easy to pick up..and that smell good.
often it's enough just to trigger my appetite that i can eat (or the smell makes me sick). they're easy enough to do that they can be made sitting in a wheelchair or sitting down :)
i hope this helps someone!
sending love,
lillia