It is deeply offensive to see this tactic repeatedly used to insult people. Anyone who genuinely has a mental illness of any sort who reads it feels diminished as a person even if it wasn’t directed at them nor references their particular illness. It reinforces prejudice…
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What It’s Like to Work with Chronic Illness
It’s 6 AM and your alarm is going off. You hit the snooze button, hoping for a few more minutes of sleep before you drag yourself out of bed. This is a morning routine most people are familiar with. But for workers with chronic illness,…
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100 Things That Makes Me Happy
Oftentimes I find myself dwelling on the negatives. I always think that for some reason a lot of us usually focus on things that stress us out or make us anxious, a lot more than we focus on things that make us happy. Here are…
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
I’m tired. No, that’s not even the word. I’m fatigued, exhausted, drained. I’m tired in a way that can’t be fixed with a good night’s sleep. I’m tired of reintroducing myself and my mental illnesses. I’m tired of being asked, “How are you?” And not…
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What’s it all about?
Life can be a real awkward piece of shit sometimes. I live with little understood, often invisible, medical conditions. My life is a bit of a rollercoaster. I never know from one week to the next, or even one day to the next, how I…