Laughter is the Best Medicine

Jun 02

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “You’re too young to be in this much pain-Oh really?”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “You’re too young to be in this much pain-Oh really?”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “Oh, so you’re vegan? That must be why you’re ill”] - “No, it’s not. My blood tests are fine, and I actually have a diagnosis.”- “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” If I could get a dime for every time… *sigh* -.-

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “Oh, so you’re vegan? That must be why you’re ill”]


- “No, it’s not. My blood tests are fine, and I actually have a diagnosis.”
- “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”


If I could get a dime for every time… *sigh* -.-

May 31

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “go to make a witty CIC picture / forgot what you wanted to say”] shinderera.tumblr.com

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “go to make a witty CIC picture / forgot what you wanted to say”]

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[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “boyfriend tries to give you a massage to make you feel better / don’t have the heart to tell him that it puts you in excruciating pain”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “boyfriend tries to give you a massage to make you feel better / don’t have the heart to tell him that it puts you in excruciating pain”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “realize you only have one heating pad / continually fight grandma for it”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.  Text reads: “realize you only have one heating pad / continually fight grandma for it”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Oh, you’re sick? well, it could be worse.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Oh, you’re sick? well, it could be worse.”]

May 30

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Revise hard before exams. Get migraine and cannot finish the papers.”] I’m currently in the conundrum of ‘try and study enough to pass my papers, but not enough to trigger another migraine and be unable to actually sit them’. Fantastic.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Revise hard before exams. Get migraine and cannot finish the papers.”]

I’m currently in the conundrum of ‘try and study enough to pass my papers, but not enough to trigger another migraine and be unable to actually sit them’. Fantastic.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Professor: “Oh, I have anxiety too, I get it!” Next line: “It doesn’t make sense that you can do the homework some weekends and not others.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Professor: “Oh, I have anxiety too, I get it!” Next line: “It doesn’t make sense that you can do the homework some weekends and not others.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Mother tells everyone you meet you have IBS. Endure incontinent old woman jokes for weeks.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Mother tells everyone you meet you have IBS. Endure incontinent old woman jokes for weeks.”]

May 29

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Receive test with nothing but “…” have full blown panic attack] I guess it is paranoia or perhaps the guilt that comes with my P.T.S.D. but I always feel like I have done something wrong or offended someone. So when I get msgs with ellipsis or told any variant of “We need to talk.”  I tend to freak out, a ton. Anyone else have this issue or have? I am tired of getting anxiety over something so dumb. 

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Receive test with nothing but “…” have full blown panic attack]

I guess it is paranoia or perhaps the guilt that comes with my P.T.S.D. but I always feel like I have done something wrong or offended someone. So when I get msgs with ellipsis or told any variant of “We need to talk.”  I tend to freak out, a ton. Anyone else have this issue or have? I am tired of getting anxiety over something so dumb. 

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “HEY, I JUST MET YOU AND THIS IS CRAZY. BUT CAN I PLEASE BORROW A COUPLE OF SPOONS?” - Bottom text reads: “WHERE ARE YOU GOING?”] Over done? I think not.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “HEY, I JUST MET YOU AND THIS IS CRAZY. BUT CAN I PLEASE BORROW A COUPLE OF SPOONS?” - Bottom text reads: “WHERE ARE YOU GOING?”]

Over done? I think not.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “DEPRESSIVE EPISODE: “I HAVE SEVERE SOCIAL ANXIETY AND THIS ASSESSMENT WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR ME”” - Bottom text reads: “HYPOMANIC EPISODE: TALK TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER!”] Isn’t it funny how mood disorders can affect anxiety disorders? Even better- this teacher is new and I haven’t explained my bipolar to her yet. She probably thinks I’m the most contradictory teenager in the entire school, right now..

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “DEPRESSIVE EPISODE: “I HAVE SEVERE SOCIAL ANXIETY AND THIS ASSESSMENT WILL BE TOO MUCH FOR ME”” - Bottom text reads: “HYPOMANIC EPISODE: TALK TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE TEACHER!”]

Isn’t it funny how mood disorders can affect anxiety disorders? Even better- this teacher is new and I haven’t explained my bipolar to her yet. She probably thinks I’m the most contradictory teenager in the entire school, right now..

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “I know you’re talking, but all I hear is ‘platitude platitude platitude’.”] So today all my illnesses (ME, fibromyalgia, depression, PCOS, various bits and bobs which I tend to just assume go with one of the above, oh, and herpes) flared up at once in the middle of school. I can’t drive, my parents are both away, and the next bus isn’t until the end of school, so I’m sitting in the school computer room feeling like shit and hopped up on painkillers, crying a bit, when in comes my history teacher to give me a pep talk. And oh my god, the number of platitudes. “Well, you’ve been looking better lately.”“Maybe you should just take some time off.”“You know, you’re doing really well at school so far.”“I’m sure you’ll feel better soon. You just need to get enough sleep at the right time.” Then, as she was leaving, her all-time favourite “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.” I get that she’s trying to help, and I appreciate it and all, but it’s incredibly obvious that she does not get it. At all. Platitude platitude platitude. Blah blah freakin’ blah.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “I know you’re talking, but all I hear is ‘platitude platitude platitude’.”]

So today all my illnesses (ME, fibromyalgia, depression, PCOS, various bits and bobs which I tend to just assume go with one of the above, oh, and herpes) flared up at once in the middle of school. I can’t drive, my parents are both away, and the next bus isn’t until the end of school, so I’m sitting in the school computer room feeling like shit and hopped up on painkillers, crying a bit, when in comes my history teacher to give me a pep talk.

And oh my god, the number of platitudes.

“Well, you’ve been looking better lately.”
“Maybe you should just take some time off.”
“You know, you’re doing really well at school so far.”
“I’m sure you’ll feel better soon. You just need to get enough sleep at the right time.”

Then, as she was leaving, her all-time favourite

“It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon.”

I get that she’s trying to help, and I appreciate it and all, but it’s incredibly obvious that she does not get it. At all.

Platitude platitude platitude. Blah blah freakin’ blah.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “wake up with absolutely no pain for once. “oh my god I died and went to heaven””]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “wake up with absolutely no pain for once. “oh my god I died and went to heaven””]

May 26

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Dr says to eat more grains to cure stomach pains as a result of not getting enough fiber. Start shitting blood because you had celiac disease all along”] I have celiac disease. It took about 5 years to diagnose. I still suffer pain from cross contamination or ignorant relatives. I’ve had multiple people tell me “it’s impossible to be allergic to wheat.” Yeah guys, tell that to my permanently damaged intestinal lining.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Dr says to eat more grains to cure stomach pains as a result of not getting enough fiber. Start shitting blood because you had celiac disease all along”]

I have celiac disease. It took about 5 years to diagnose. I still suffer pain from cross contamination or ignorant relatives. I’ve had multiple people tell me “it’s impossible to be allergic to wheat.” Yeah guys, tell that to my permanently damaged intestinal lining.