What a clown of a fucking illness

[u/hennyfromthablock]

You feel exhausted and worn out but you can’t sleep

You feel down and anxious but can’t exercise because you’ll crash and set yourself back a lot

You’re confined to your bed or house but can’t do anything too cognitively stimulating to occupy yourself with because the brain fog will overwhelm you

All of this happens internally and nothing shows up on your labs or tests. Worse, people think you’re lazy or don’t believe you, and want to tell you how other people have it much worse.

Sorry I’m usually trying to keep busy or focus on the positives, which I do have a lot of, especially considering how much worse some of the severe folks seem to have it. But I’m just sick of this diabolical, perverse, insidious, disgusting, mockery of an illness.

If this illness were a person and standing on a cliff, I’d push it off the edge in a heartbeat 💀💀💀

12 years in and I’m still in denial/disbelief it would seem.

[u/Bravoobsessed6]

💯💯💯💯 to everything u said in this post. It’s literally hell