It’s not normal to always get dizzy when you kneel down and then get up, or when you get up from bed or a chair.
It’s not normal for any of that to make you light-headed or nauseous, or get blurry vision, headaches or palpitations.
It’s not normal for your body to suck at regulating its temperature and for your heart rate to go insane if you’re just mildly stressed.
It’s not normal to want to be active and “productive” but be unable to get your body to do anything so you just lay there, or if you manage to get anything done, you’ll need a whole week to recover.
It’s not normal to be tremendously tired all the time no matter how much you rest and sleep, even if people think you’re just “lazy”.
I’m pointing all these things out as abnormal because chronically ill people tend to not realize that our symptoms are symptoms.
Our individual bodies are the only bodies we’ve experienced and since most of us don’t look any different from others and aren’t taken seriously when we complain of any ailment, we assume our symptoms happen to everyone. They do not.
People with no physical conditions (at least not impairing ones such as being a bit short-sighted) do not have their bodies make life difficult for them, unless they’re temporarily ill. But we are ill ALL the time.
Take yourself seriously. Doctors and healthy people already don’t, so if you don’t take yourself seriously, who will?
If your body is making life difficult for you, there’s probably something going on with it, and if it persists and nothing makes it go away, it may be a chronic illness.
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