Category: mental health
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Being more than your career and illness
“For 3 years of my life I’ve had nothing to say to people outside of work and colitis. Work and colitis aren’t my identity. I am more than this.”
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Harry never met Sally
I explore why “When Harry met Sally” is flawed through personal experiences with life, dating and ulcerative colitis.
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I don’t know how I’m doing
I hate when people ask me how I’m doing with my illness. It’s not that I hate people (for the most part) or that I don’t want to share things about myself (obviously I have no restraint) but mostly because I really don’t know how I’m doing. Right now I’m a month into my remicade […]
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Story Time: UC and Depression
Anyone who has a chronic illness will tell you it’s exhausting; every day your biggest wish is that it would just end, and after a while you don’t particularly care about the method.