Hey! Just found your writing as you mentioned in a chain of us chronically unwell folk (hi, that’s me too 👋🏽). I have fibro, CFS, navigating anxiety and depression and about to be diagnosed, at 40 with AuDHD 🙃 so all of this and your page has struck a chord. When I joined Substack I was ALL in. Then I got fearful and felt so much pressure and last October there were a lot of the start of the most awful world events we were seeing in real time…and it felt a lot for an already frazzled brain. 1 year later, I posted last week. I took the time off to journal and sketchbook journal too, and take some courses and just *be* and I think there’s just this constant need to always prove our worth. I’ll speak for myself; there’s a pressure I feel, even as an unwell woman, to keep turning up. And for so many reasons, I just can’t do that how I used to or how an able bodied person will. All this to say, yay, it’s nice to find other writers who share in 2 mins what’s been circling in my brain and hasn’t quite landed until now.
Hey! Just found your writing as you mentioned in a chain of us chronically unwell folk (hi, that’s me too 👋🏽). I have fibro, CFS, navigating anxiety and depression and about to be diagnosed, at 40 with AuDHD 🙃 so all of this and your page has struck a chord. When I joined Substack I was ALL in. Then I got fearful and felt so much pressure and last October there were a lot of the start of the most awful world events we were seeing in real time…and it felt a lot for an already frazzled brain. 1 year later, I posted last week. I took the time off to journal and sketchbook journal too, and take some courses and just *be* and I think there’s just this constant need to always prove our worth. I’ll speak for myself; there’s a pressure I feel, even as an unwell woman, to keep turning up. And for so many reasons, I just can’t do that how I used to or how an able bodied person will. All this to say, yay, it’s nice to find other writers who share in 2 mins what’s been circling in my brain and hasn’t quite landed until now.