Shared via Elaine Mansfield
I’m sharing a status update from Facebook below and then I’m sharing some comments and links that document how lonely and isolating being chronically ill can be. I know many folks who are still in earlier phases of withdrawing from psych drugs are still feeling desperately alone and sicker than they ever imagined possible. It does pass. A lot of us have made it through that hellish darkness. Things really do get better. We come to thrive again. See also: It Gets Better Series
My mother is visiting next week. I’ve not seen her in 6 years. I was too ill to have visitors who couldn’t abide the extreme nature of what I was dealing with when I was struck with the drug iatrogenesis (medical injury). That included almost everyone. Most people who came by never wanted to come again and did not. I lost all my friends for a good long…
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