Figuring out chronic illnesses. If you've got something other than the "basics" like diabetes or arthritis, it's a shitshow that can take years, a dozen or more doctors, tens of thousands of dollars, and endless medical tests.
"Are you sure you're not making it up"
The medical system is not kind, my diagnosis was all of 5 minutes and almost definitely wrong. That was after fighting with my GP to get a referral to the right specialist...
I reckon the worst part of a chronic illness is when you don't realise it's abnormal, I just assumed everyone else was just as tired and sore as me.
Agree, except for the tens of thousands of dollars thing
Ah. You must not be in the US.
Agreed. I've spent like half my life on this stuff, and nowadays medical stuff is practically all I do.
Not me, but my friend. Had a relationship with a girl he met in an MMORPG.The girl was still living with her ex-husband and had not divorced yet. And she lived in another country across the ocean. The couple were doing therapy. My friend had hopes this would be his chance at love. How could I be a downer when he was in love.
The most "it's complicated" situation
Adulthood
Coming to terms that maybe that I don't have as much going wrong with me mentally as I thought. I went into therapy for credential reasons, to say that I have issues than what I see everyone else do and that's self-diagnose themselves. Well, I know that I do have some things wrong with me but the severity isn't as grand as I thought.
It's good because maybe there's a chance here that I can try to manage all of this, without being drugged up.
The bad news is, is that, there's been so much destruction in my life due to these issues that I thought were severe, then having to explain who remains with me about what's going on, what's been going on .etc
There's just so much exposition and everyone I know has the attention span of a housefly.
Trying to sustain a long distance relationship whilst her husband, my ex-friend, was trying to impose his insecurities on us. My husband was indifferent to all this and my energy was being drained doing a degree and working full time.
Damn I miss those days 🤣
I'm divorced and single. My ex-wife is poly and in a relationship with a guy who has the same name as me and some number of other people. She's suggested that we could both be in the same polycule, but I'm not sure I'm interested in some sort of relationship with her. I do find one of her girlfriends to be very attractive though.
I'm currently sleeping with a bi-curious woman who has two good friends. One is a guy who, as it happens, is my ex-wifes ex-boyfriend. The other is a woman who expressed interest in me at one point. The woman I'm sleeping with just scheduled a road trip with her girlfriend and invited me to come along.
I'm going to spend three days sharing an Airbnb with the two of them and I'm not opposed to the situation becoming slightly more complicated.
The never ending, balancing act between everydayness, health and self-actualization.
