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Hi team - If you find yourself on this page, please re-navigate to the new and improved SickerThanYourAverage.com. It features a more aesthetically-pleasing design and lots of new content. Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll come along to a new home and new domain with me ..read more
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Mental Health and Physical Health: A Dysfunctional Relationship
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, one third of patients with a chronic illness experience symptoms of depression. While that statistic is jarring in its magnitude, it's not really all that surprising. I talk a lot about what life is like with a chronic condition, but I rarely talk about the mental repercussions of my diagnosis. That's probably because depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues still pack a major stigma –– and because I tend to cope with the bad stuff in my life by cracking jokes about them. But considering that one third of the patients that may read this blog are a ..read more
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Chronic Illness –– It Could Happen to You!
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Lupus. Multiple Sclerosis. Endometriosis. Crohn's Disease. Rheumatoid arthritis. All of these are just a handful examples of debilitating chronic illnesses with unknown causes. Doctors believe some mix of genetics and environment and about a million other things could be the culprit, but the point is: we don't know. And when you don't know what causes a disease, it's nearly impossible to prevent getting or having it. There's no cure for a large percentage of chronic illnesses. No amount of healthy eating or positive thinking or only buying organic shampoo can prevent you from getting these d ..read more
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Back to School Special: What Educators Need to Know About IBD
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Fun fact: before I worked in my current job in social media marketing, I entertained the idea of being a high school teacher. I “entertained” it so hard that I minored in secondary education, finishing all my courses and observation hours in a high school. I opted for a different, more Twitter-centric path in the end, but I remember my classes well. I remember learning about how to help kids who have learning disabilities, and how to cater to different types of learning styles. What I don’t remember them mentioning much (if at all) is how to deal with kids who are chronically ill. This isn’t ..read more
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Sick and Tired, But Mostly Tired.
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I've been fully living lately. After a year and a half of extreme sickness –– spending all my free time in bed, not being able to eat, and pretty much never socializing –– my biologics finally kicked in this year, and I kicked back into the high gear of a "normal girl." One problem? I'm not a normal girl. Don't take that the wrong way here –– I know my illness doesn't define me as a person, but it is definitely a big facet of who I am. Even when I'm going through a healthy phase, it's relative. I'm healthy by my standards, not the standards of a 25 year old woman without a chronic illness ..read more
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Independent Women, Pt. III
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There are a lot of "hard parts" to being chronically ill. The kick to your finances is difficult to manage. The blow to your social life is mentally trying. Hell, physical pain is no picnic, either. (Mainly, though, I miss the ability to eat movie theater popcorn with a heart attack amount of butter.) But one of the hardest parts for a lot of patients is the way being chronically ill can strip you of your independence. I have always prided myself on being an independent person –– living on my own, taking care of myself, paying my own bills. Going to college where I didn't know anyone and onc ..read more
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May is IBD Awareness Month! (2017 Edition)
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Happy IBD Awareness Month! Or maybe “happy” seems like a slightly-off way to put it, as we would all be much happier if diseases such as these did not exist and we therefore did not have to be aware of them. It is IBD Awareness Month! Better. Awareness months are a little weird, because you’re like 1 - why do I need to be aware of this? There are so many things to be aware of. And 2 - How do I help and become more aware? I’m busy and I have like three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale to watch later. Last year walk day was like 102 degrees and we still has a bunch of fun and braided e ..read more
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I'm Done Begging The GOP To See Me as a Person.
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Jokey is my default setting. I very much subscribe to Sara Benincasa’s notion that if you can laugh at the worst moments in your life, you can transcend them. Even when the going has gotten really tough, I’ve maintained a certain level of sarcastic detachment about it all. There have been a few occasions in life where putting on the humor mask hasn’t worked for me. One of those times was on election night. Another one of those times was this afternoon. I have a lot of problems with the current political administration. I abhor their treatment of immigrants, I am frightened by their attitudes ..read more
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Spending Time With Your Damn Self, British Edition
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"Traveling alone is cool and not at all depressing," she said to herself as she embarked on a solo trip across the Atlantic. I don’t often write about the gifts being ill has imparted on me, because they tend to pale in comparison to the trash heap of negatives that come with having a chronic disease. Crohn’s has taken a lot from me over the years –– it’s minimized my social life, it’s taken a real chunk out of my self confidence, and it’s nabbed a lot of money I could have otherwise saved for my future. I’ve covered this stuff before. But I recently realized something that life with a chron ..read more
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IPhones, Choices, and Clueless Men from Utah
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Early this morning, while I was taking my pills, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz went on television to talk up the GOP’s new plan for healthcare. If, like me, you have a chronic illness, you’ve probably been on the edge of your seat watching the news unfurl about the new Republican healthcare plan that some are deeming Trumpcare. And after an early look at the plan, it seems we’ve had good reason to be worried. It’s a lengthy document, but Vox has a really handy explainer here. There are a number of things about this plan that frighten me, but before I even had a chance to ..read more
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