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Sometimes even taking a shower seems like an insurmountable task.

This is my daily reality. I miss deadlines and appointments and sometimes a phone call is impossible to make, no matter how important it is. My family has no idea.

This, especially when you get hit with anxiety at the same time. Takes all my willpower to barely function. I tend to get snappy at this point. Got fired from a job because of it.

And then to top it off, you get labeled as lazy for not doing stuff.

I will attest on behalf of my wife.

I have an ex who suffered with endometriosis, poor thing would be laid up for days on end in bed or on the sofa. Her mother of all people would insinuate she was faking it or exaggerating, I couldn't wrap my head around how cold she was about it.

I ended up having a hysterectomy in my 20s, but it took a long time for anyone to take me seriously. Nobody was laughing though when it took 2 days of transfusions for me to have enough blood for the doctor to even perform the surgery. It's probably difficult for some people to reconcile, when feminine hygiene commercials show women windsurfing and playing tennis like everything's just peachy thanks to this cute little pink plug👐 In reality, for a lot of women, it's like being simultaneously kicked in the spine, punched in the ovaries, and stabbed in your uterus, coupled with bleeding so much that you seriously question how you are still alive. The commercials should just be women yelling "FUUUUUUCK!

Tbf, labour is different for different women. Mine was unbearably excruciating. That doesn't mean I have never felt bad pain since then. The worst period cramps happened after I got back on treating my prolactinoma and went on a higher dose of Bromocriptine. If I had a job at the time I would have been calling in sick and sticking it to them if the boss tried coercing me to come in. I was on the bed reeling. Something I did notice that just really bugs me is there's this belief that once you've given birth to a baby, suddenly other pain you experience afterwards is supposed to just be a mere tickle. Why does there have to even be this competition or gate-keeping of pain and pain tolerance, or there lack of? It should be understandable and deserving of sympathy for someone in immense pain no matter the cause.

It IS a sign, though, that you need to get checked out. Supposedly - can't relate since I, too, have a case of broketycrotch - it's not supposed to be wholly debilitating. Always get your junk checked. The pain is absolutely horrifying and scary and you deserve to know if it means there's something going on.

Turn signals seem to be against the law in WNC.

I saw a very rare sight recently. A BMW with working indicators!

And how many of them only seem to work once the driver is well into the turn.

I chose to save money by not ordering that option...

Some people think that the use of turn signals is optional.

Only those who lack a brain would believe in such fantasies...

It's illness like any other. You wouldn't (ideally anyway) hesitate to go get a broken arm checked out, nor would someone generally feel shame about that. So there's no shame in making sure your headmeat is functioning properly. Anyone who says that it is a shameful thing to pursue mental health cold sucks a fat one and does not deserve to have a say in your life. Be well, pandaroos.

One ex-friend told me "I wasn't as screwed up as I thought I was." Thank God a licensed medical professional knew better or I'd not be alive today.

I LOVE how people think if you do more exercise and walk out in the sunlight, you are going to magically feel perfectly fine all of a sudden.

"Have you tried praying about it?" I have never heard a diabetic person asked this by a religious' person.

Autoimmune sufferer, I completely feel this. OP is absolutely right - there are days you simply. Can. Not. Function. and "mood" and "attitude" have NOTHING to do with what is physically happening, and yet people... and that's all I'm going to say. People.

People who think incurable diseases don't exist are afraid of not having control over everything in their life. If only they knew how little control they really have...

My wife has chronic Lyme disease (similar symptom profile to MS). Soooo many people that deserve punches in the face for the line... "but you look fine." I'm sorry for your experiences. Sigh!

Fibromyalgia, arthritis, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, sciatica, diabetes and CIPN (chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy), in remission from breast cancer. "You're too young to be that sick ", "you don't look sick ", "the pain can't be that bad " (I'm allowed 6 Norco 10 a day), "just get up move around more " (can't walk or stand more than 10 minutes w/o pain). All of my medical issues are "invisible" and started when I was about 45. I've actually been yelled at in the grocery store for using the scooters. I once lifted my shirt to show my mastectomy to prove I wasn't faking, was still mostly bald from chemo, looked like c**p. First outing after Dr's OK. Nothing will cure my issues, ever. Don't presume to know what I need to do to get better. And don't judge unless you have the same problems. Be glad you don't.