[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “crippling anxiety about how much work I have to do…anxiety meds make me too sleepy to work at all”]

thepensivebrony:

“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”

finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever

shmegeh:

I found this card at the pharmacy today and it was good.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “FORGET WORD FOR ACUPUNCTURE … “STABBY-MAKE-FEEL-BETTER””]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Family member gets the same illness. Suddenly everyone is sympathetic.”]

It REALLY pisses me off that, after a lifetime of having ulcertive colitis, one side of my family only really started to realise that I can’t just “work through it” or “toughen up”. Why? Because my aunt, in her early forties, was diagnosed with the same thing. I’ve been dealing with these symptoms since I was a child and they’d always give me lectures and just … nope.

whatshouldwecallfibro:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “”Wow you’ve gained weight.” Say it again and I’ll sit on you.”]

Anybody else experience terrible weight gain as a side effect? They put me on Abilify and I gained 60 pounds…yeah, that helped my “recovered” e.d….

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Two side effects: dry mouth and overactive bladder. You see my problem here]

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[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Main symptom of depression: always tired. Main side effect of prozac: drowsiness”]

whovianherbivore:

People who tell me I just need to change my diet or exercise more and all my chronic illnesses will go away:

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “All the ER nurses know me by name”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Need to be in college to have medical insurance, too sick to attend classes”]

It’s a vicious cycle.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Top - Feels Like i’m excreting golfballs. Bottom - At least the blood from my torn colon works as lubricant”]

You know it’s bad when you count bleeding as a silver lining.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Eight different medications. Apparently not enough.”]

Got two new ones, old ones got upped.