Tag: mental health
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Entering 2020: musings on a new decade
The 20’s are here! Hear my plans for the new year and some rambling on life as usual.
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Self-image struggle
Colitis makes me feel gross and a lot of the time I want to live like a recluse. “Who would want this? I come with so much baggage. Exhausted all the time, constant anxiety, depression, and then all the gastrointestinal issues when I’m flaring.”
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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.”
Sunny Guts 