Complex or chronic medical struggles are isolating. Trauma is isolating. Complex or chronic medical struggles are traumatic stressors-- & when we're trying to cope w/ all these isolating layers of stress, it can make us feel hopelessly alone.
You're not alone in feeling alone.
That chronically ill person you know has probably never answered a "how are you" honestly.
Instead, they likely shrug it off with a casual ‘it is what it is,’ maybe even laugh, because the truth is heavy, complicated, and they don’t want to burden you with it.
I wish I could explain how chronic pain chips away at your personality, your ambition, your mood, every facet of your life. It can feel quite torturous, very Groundhog Day. The symptoms may change but they all suck. And they chip chip chip…
Your tired is not the same tired as someone with a chronic illness.
Our fatigue makes us feel like there is poison in our veins, as if each limb weighs 1000x pounds and trying to move through wet cement.
You go to sleep and recharge.
We don’t. That’s the difference.
@RealisticPoetry SWEET TALK (by Neha Sampat)
Currency
Is the Cadbury
Forsaken to
The sweetness in
Your hopeful,
“Hello?”
“It’s me,”
Connecting via cord,
So here and there are twins
Born of this booth.
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No one talks about how much energy it takes to show emotion as a chronically ill person. Crying takes energy, yelling takes energy, etc. We have to suppress our emotions to conserve our energy. If it looks like we aren’t struggling, we are. We just can’t show it as much.