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When a flare hits, we often go straight into “how do I fix this?” mode.

But sometimes, trying to fix it becomes part of the overload.

Maybe you don’t need another solution. 🤍

One of the quieter effects of chronic illness is how small your world can become.

And sometimes you mistake that for becoming boring.

But a smaller world doesn’t mean you’ve become a different person.

Anyone else felt this?

That weird mix of disappointment and relief when plans get cancelled …

And no, it doesn’t make you a bad person. It’s simply living a chronic illness life.

Sometimes chronic illness changes the things you never thought to question. And yes… I really did iron my towels. 😂

Apparently chronic illness turns you into a very strategic little hoarder 😂

Tiny stashes everywhere, just in case.

If you know, you know. 👀

ME/CFS fatigue isn’t ordinary tiredness.

If you know, you know. 🤍

What would you call it instead?

We’re often so focused on what other people say to us that we forget how hard we can be on ourselves.

Maybe it’s time we gave ourselves the same compassion we’d give someone else living with chronic illness.

Sometimes the exhaustion isn’t because you’ve done too much. Sometimes, you haven’t done anything at all. That’s the ME/CFS life 🤍


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Sometimes anxiety doesn’t look like anxiety.

Sometimes it looks like feeling safest at home.

I didn’t realise that for a long time. 🤍