[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “What’s so stressful about being a greeter?” “Says the person without crippling social anxiety about a job that requires working with people day in and day out.”]

[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”]

[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: “Eight different medications. Apparently not enough.”]

Got two new ones, old ones got upped.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Clearly two chronic illnesses are not enough. Four is a much better number”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Friend catches flu and complains about symptom they usually tease you about.  No sympathy.”]

My friend likes to tease me about how I’m always so tired. So when she caught the flu and complained about what sounded like exactly the level of fatigue I always feel, I couldn’t really bring myself to feel bad for her on that front.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Every healthy person knows exactly how I should fix myself.”]

Submitted by quantum-angel (whose computer is broken) and amorphe-hexe (who has the functioning computer, has to put up with his flashback complaints, and has many of the same issues).

[Image: Top half: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Chronic pain flares”. Bottom half: 4-piece teal and purple colored background with the head of a puma. Text reads: “Flash back to every time friends and family denied that you had it, ever.”]

Presenting a mashup with our friend, PTSD Puma.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Feels too cold to sleep. Clothes too irritating to sleep.”

My various chronic disorders often lead to me feeling cold, even in +100 degree weather, while I also get anxious if my clothes are too irritating, even if they’re really not all that seamed or whatever. Leads to rough nights for sure.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “My chi is not the problem.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Overweight so take the stairs to avoid the looks. Legs try to give out half way up”]

It’s silly I know I should take the lift/escalator because of the pain but it’s like I can feel the judgement on me. 

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: Finally find med that works for constipation, causes intense jaw pain to return]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Orgasm as analgesic… oops debilitating endorphin addiction”]

In response to this very relevant chronic illness cat. Doing better recently, but I still have to watch myself carefully for high-seeking and crashes.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Doctor recommend getting blood taken - Instant panic because of the future pain.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “People get money and clothes for Christmas - Gets anxiety meds”]