This is precisely the suggestion I intended to make -- chronic pain sucks, depression and anxiety and all the rest are inconvenient ... but it's my chronic illness in and of itself that I have to work so hard to manage. It's not something I'll ever get all better from, but simply being able to name chronic illness as my Big Bad would help. Anything else just doesn't cover the experience.
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This is precisely the suggestion I intended to make -- chronic pain sucks, depression and anxiety and all the rest are inconvenient ... but it's my chronic illness in and of itself that I have to work so hard to manage. It's not something I'll ever get all better from, but simply being able to name chronic illness as my Big Bad would help. Anything else just doesn't cover the experience.