A health, wellness and chronic illness blog that aims to articulate lifelong illness and disabilities from various perspectives.
What’s the Tetris Effect Got to do with Chronic Illness? Wait! Don’t stop reading – I’m definitely not about to start talk about gaming! While the Tetris effect may have started out with a phenomenon identified from heavy video game use, the Tetris effect is now used to describe instances when people devote so much […]
A Mixed Psychological State I’ve been in states of depression again of late. I’ve been through this cycle enough times to know that my brain chemistry is messed up again, although I have cause to believe that my epilepsy has a hand in them as well. I feel somewhat hypomanic at the same time, but […]
Continue reading "A String of Bad Days (and What Happened When That Good Day Finally Came Along)"
Constantly I am inundated with article titles, statements, and ‘tips’ that tell me that the key to being healthy is a good night’s sleep. Or that exercise is essential to healthy living. Yes, these things are great for most people. But they do not work for me or ME. What is ME? Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) […]
A Familiar Wish List… My original intention for this post was more of a show and tell wish list session. Where the chronic illness community could share what was on their wish list, and maybe learn about new coping tools from others like them, too. But it turns we mostly want the same thing, no […]
Why Many People with Chronic Illness Hate to be Known as ‘Sick’ From reading articles online, I’m aware that many of us with chronic illnesses don’t like to be known as sick or weak. No human being does, really. There are many reasons why one might dislike the association with their illness, such as: We […]
Continue reading "Call Me Sick Girl (Or How to Make Your Weakness Your Strength)"
*Note from A Chronic Voice: Chesna from Floral Garage approached me a couple weeks back for a collaboration. We had a floral workshop planned for raising awareness on chronic conditions, but perhaps the timing wasn’t right and we didn’t have enough participants. So they kindly sponsored four of their best-selling bouquets instead, to a few […]
CLICK HERE to submit your own entry, and to read about what others are up to as well! Meeting Most of us spend lots of time meeting a selection of doctors, even though we’d rather be well enough to meet our friends or family. Some of us don’t like meeting people at all, or maybe […]
Continue reading "2018 November Prompts: Meeting, Advocating, Tweaking, Working & Curating"
I Asked and You Answered In this three part series we’ll be investigating pain flares: how it varies for each individual, what triggers them, how to prevent and also cope with them. (You can find links for the other two at the end of this post.) Pain is a private and personal experience, one which […]
Continue reading "A Roundup of Biggest Pain Flare Triggers (from 40 People with Chronic Illness)"
Quite unbelievable but not really; the end of the year is closing in upon us! How has it been for you so far, and how do you plan to wind down (or up!) as we approach the festive season? Share your thoughts and plans for November with these writing prompts. I look forward to reading […]
Continue reading "2018 November Linkup Party for People with Chronic Illnesses"
To clarify before I begin – I have a variety of chronic illnesses that affect the blood, brain, heart and virtually any body part, but I know nothing about physical disability and have only been confined to a wheelchair once. So if I made a mistake in this article, feel free to correct me. Having […]
Continue reading "Would You Rather: Have an Invisible Illness or a Visible Disability?"