Tag: chronic-illness

  • Loyalty To Pain

    Our idea of worth as a culture revolves around suffering. Is it time for a new definition? I just heard a phrase that made me stop and think about my relationship to it: “loyalty to pain”. It’s about the sunk cost of past pain, and how sometimes we’ll remain in pain or even lean further Read.

  • Why Solitude? – Disability & Chronic Illness

    Disability, in my case, works better alone. Being disabled because of chronic illness makes your life a conditional experience. I’d love to make plans, to promise I’ll be places to do things, but I just don’t feel it’s polite for me to do so. Will I feel ok on the day?Will I have energy?Will I Read.