Category: Mental Health
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
“So maybe there’s this phenomenon where to experience life at its fullest, you have to experience the full extent of both good and bad things. I’ve met plenty of people who lack empathy for those with chronic illnesses because they seemingly can’t relate having never experienced it themselves, coincidentally these are the same people who seem to not have a very fulfilled outlook on life.”
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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.