Anyone who works a full-time+ job and either lives alone or in a situation where they’re doing the majority of the household management: I’m so proud of you. However well or poorly you think you’re managing this is the sign you’re doing enough. This shit is hard. A no one is going to give you credit for how hard it is. No one notices a clean house, they only notice if it’s dirty. But you’re doing great, and it’s okay to give yourself a break. You deserve it.
The normal level of daily pain for an able-bodied person is ZERO, without needing to take pain medication, not even off-the-counter meds.
Not a little, definitely not enough to be “distracting but tolerable” with or without Tylenol. ZERO. (I’m shocked too every time I remember that the norm is to live pain free unless something happened to you, I know.)
If your baseline of unmedicated daily pain is above zero, you’re dealing with chronic pain and you need to come to terms with that reality.
Babes, chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts over 3 months. That’s it. Including pain that goes away but then inevitably returns. It doesn’t have to be 100% persistent.
Stop scrutinizing and minimizing your own pain so much. It’s not gonna help you OR the “actually” disabled/ill people you seem to think you’ll offend by acknowledging your own suffering.
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I have no chronic pain from my condition but I do have chronic dizziness/fatigue and it just hit me how the same applies to that.
*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade*
hey….
nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.
it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.
*leaves the way i came*
This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site
