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Being a Prisoner to Chronic Illness

Being A Prisoner To Chronic Illness

Being A Prisoner to Illness Loneliness. Isolation. Solitude.  Three words that I would describe life with a neurological disorder. Excluding words, of course, associated with the symptoms that accompany said condition. You become a prisoner to chronic illness; a prisoner in your own body. Not fitting in Having experienced symptoms from a young age, I have always felt like I've never fitted in anywhere. Like Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast' I have always felt that others think of...

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Struggling with Storms but hoping for a Rainbow…

Well, today marks the start of a brand new start month. The start of something new - whether it be a new day, month or year. It is like a fresh, white piece of paper, in which the past and everything that has come before forgotten, and instead, we are allowed to start afresh. To start our story anew. It opens up new possibilities and opportunities and allows us the hope for a better today and tomorrow (and beyond). And this is most important when living with...

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The sound of illness is often silence…

When living with a chronic illness, any chronic illness there are of course many symptoms that we are forced to live with as a consequence.  Both physical and psychological effects of living with a long-term health condition such as the neurological condition that I live with everyday.  Perhaps one of the most significant and common psychological repercussions of living with a chronic illness, which is not always discussed is loneliness. Loneliness is often discussed in relation to the elderly.  It is often...

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