Ehlers Danlos zebra

May 2019 bring you enough adequate pain relief that you can finally get out of spoon debt.

eds lifehack

anyone: *says something to me*

I keep saying IRL “you know that feeling when-” and getting strange looks.

“You’d never know you were Ill just by looking at you!”

You know you have a chronic illness when:

“People with chronic illness are not lazy or underachievers. If anything, we are warriors. We live with what can feel like overwhelming circumstances, yet many of us find a way to continue to smile in the face of adversity. We fight an unrelenting and uninvited assailant every second of the day, one that we didn’t ask for and didn’t want for our lives. Yet we manage to keep going, keep smiling, keep finding ways to live our lives with purpose in spite of all that is against us. That’s not being lazy or weak; that’s being courageous and strong.”

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.””

“Why can’t you just...”

*sweeps the floor*