I'm not worried about a downer entry, and hope to reassure you on this count, as a reader you wouldn't know from Eve.
Accurately recounting your experience might confront a reader with their own anxieties, but you are being informative, which is also important, and a general good. Informative, not just about a specific illness, but also about the difficulties of being ill in society, knowledge which I think we're all too often "encouraged" to stay schtum about. Like, yeah, maybe we're "protecting" someone from being, oh I don't know, made nervous by the notion that bodies can go wrong in uncomfortable ways, but I think, actually, there's a darker side to keeping suffering hidden, in maintaining a society-wide pretense of what we humans should or should not be.
Good luck, and I'm sorry this is such a trial for you. And thank you for being up front about it all. You're increasing the common wisdom with this generosity.
Thank you for posting this comment. I quite agree with you. I suffer from fibromyalgia myself, and sometimes it helps just to know that other people go through the same misery. Otherwise, one starts to wonder, "Jeebus, is this all in my head?" or something like that.
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Accurately recounting your experience might confront a reader with their own anxieties, but you are being informative, which is also important, and a general good. Informative, not just about a specific illness, but also about the difficulties of being ill in society, knowledge which I think we're all too often "encouraged" to stay schtum about. Like, yeah, maybe we're "protecting" someone from being, oh I don't know, made nervous by the notion that bodies can go wrong in uncomfortable ways, but I think, actually, there's a darker side to keeping suffering hidden, in maintaining a society-wide pretense of what we humans should or should not be.
Good luck, and I'm sorry this is such a trial for you. And thank you for being up front about it all. You're increasing the common wisdom with this generosity.
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