#hypermobility

[oncillaphoenix]

these hips don't lie but the truths they tell are strange and disquieting

[fibromyalgicaf]

Hey if you have chronic pain, you gotta remember that the cognitive load of dealing with that is exhausting. Just that alone. Never mind what else you've got going on.

You're not lazy or being dramatic; you're overloaded.

[daveagainstthemachine]

disabled clown: oh boy I made it home! As a treat I’ll put on my compression socks and my compression belt and my compression shirt and my compression handkerchief and my compression handkerchief and my compression handkerchief and my compression handkerchief and my

[chronicallydragons]

Anyone else with chronic pain ever get really absorbed in a project and dissociate from your body while you're working but then you finish and you come back to your body and you're just like AAAAAAAHHH! WHAT'S WRONG?? oh yeah. The horrors. Never mind

[anonymoustigress]

Currently trying to apply for disability allowance and one question was ‘do you struggle with showering’ and I was getting a friend to help me and I said to them ‘no cause I sit down while doing my hair and I always shower at night so I can lie down after so it doesn’t affect me too much’ and they said ‘but if you showered during the day?’ and I said ‘oh. Yeah I wouldn’t be able to function for 3+ hours.’ it’s just so funny to realise what things are so engrained in my day that I don’t even know they’re not normal, like of course I can’t shower during the day, that’s fine?

[stars-and-branches]

Chronic pain pisses me off cause I'm not even incapacitated for like a cool or badass reason instead my body is throwing the world's biggest temper tantrum because it's raining outside

[f4wn-flower]

rocky with his human thinking machine, learning about the median human on earth and getting disturbed by grace's horrific posture and joint instability .

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Trying to prove a point to someone who doesn’t understand why going to a new doctor would be anxiety inducing because “they’ve literally made a whole career out of wanting to help people, how could they do any wrong.” And “Why would you be scared of someone that spent years and years, went hundreds of thousands in debt, just to be able to help people?”

Fucking hell could you please like or reblog if you’ve ever been gaslit or fake-claimed or in any way mistreated or not taken seriously by any healthcare professional. Any details in the tags is appreciated too. I just need more people to understand that getting clinical help is often infinitely harder than it sounds.