BODYChronic Illness signals
Anonymous thoughts about chronic illness.
The self organized around what the body can and cannot do.
The life that has to be rebuilt around the condition.
Grief that is ongoing, adaptation that is ongoing, neither ever complete.
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Chronic illness is a relationship — with a body that doesn't behave predictably, with a life that has to be planned around unpredictability, with a self that existed before the illness and may never fully exist in that form again. The grief is ongoing. The adaptation is ongoing. Neither is ever fully complete.
Anonymous thoughts about chronic illness posted here are from people navigating this ongoing negotiation — the honest account of living inside a body that requires constant management.