Medical gaslighting is real. For two weeks, I’ve experienced numbness and tingling on my left side. It became so frightening that I went to the ER. They tried to convince me that I was just stressed and anxious. The nurse suggested that it could be radiation from cellphone use.

Someone explain to me why programs for disabled seniors don’t also exist for younger disabled ppl

Trying to find meal delivery help for someone & all the programs are for age 60+

Young disabled ppl don’t magically have more social supports & need support to be able to get old!

How/why does my head itch if it's numb

Story of my life. I never could catch up. I survived but never thrived. The resilience of children is vastly overestimated, and what doesn't kill you just makes you more traumatised, not stronger. #CPTSD

i would do absolutely anything for my friends except answer their text messages

STOP OFFERING CHRONICALLY ILL AND DISABLED PEOPLE MEDICAL ADVICE THEY DIDN’T ASK FOR, YA DINGBATS.

One thing I would love for doctors to understand is that by the time a patient has been chronically ill for a number of years, they likely have many layers of medical trauma.

This can affect the way they come across in an appointment.

sorry i didn’t answer your call. i don’t do that

It should be illegal for people who aren’t chronically ill to tell chronically ill people how to deal with their illnesses. 😐

Someone asked me why so many young people have tattoos and I was like 'the earth is literally on fire, governments are collapsing, inflation is out of control, there's a plague, why not have pretty picture on arm?' And he went 'when you put it like that it makes perfect sense'

Chronically ill/disabled people don’t get nearly enough credit for pretending to be ok all the time

Silent treatment has the same chemical reaction in our brain, as physical abuse.

#psychology #emotionalabuse #cPTSD

Practially non-existent

If you are disabled and you had to cancel plans today to take care of disability issues, you are not unreliable. You are doing what you need to do to take care of yourself. You are putting your disability first, and that is okay.

Seriously though the reaction I'm having to this medication is really scaring me