Toni Bernhard - The Burdens Posed by Invisible Physical and Mental Illnesses

[Cheshire]

I look healthy. My friend, whom I’ll call Gail, also looks healthy. The difference is that I suffer from a physical illness and she suffers from a mental illness: depression. The similarity is that both of our conditions are invisible to others.

Despite the different source of our illnesses, our lives are parallel in several ways. I want badly to be able to go places and to socialize, especially at night when visiting with others is often at its richest. But I can’t. My body’s limitations keep me housebound. And Gail? Her body doesn’t keep her from these activities, but her emotional state does. She finds it hard to leave the house. She finds it hard to socialize. Some days, she wants to curl in a ball and stay in bed. I do that too, but for a different reason.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...posed-invisible-physical-and-mental-illnesses

 

[TiredSam]

Kermit the Frog sings “It’s not easy being green.” Well, it’s often not easy being human.

Hmmm.

 

[TiredSam]

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All this talk about Budhist inspired blah blah.

I wonder if it's time someone wrote "The Grumpy Bastard's Guide to Being Ill"?

Maybe that would give my life some meaning.

 

[Trish]

I wonder if it's time someone wrote "The Grumpy Bastard's Guide to Being Ill"?

Maybe that would give my life some meaning.

Are you volunteering to write it? I'd buy it!
The nearest I've found is not illness specific: