Chronic Illness on Sidechat | well-meaning “be good to your body, it’s always doing its best to keep you alive 🫶”-ass sentiments trigger me straight to hell like sure, that must feel nice to believe, but personally my own blood cells have been trying to destroy my bones for >15 years

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Chronic Illness 1d

well-meaning “be good to your body, it’s always doing its best to keep you alive 🫶”-ass sentiments trigger me straight to hell like sure, that must feel nice to believe, but personally my own blood cells have been trying to destroy my bones for >15 years

Anonymous 1d

I can’t deal with the thought that for most people my age it’s a given that their body “wants” to be alive. how alienating to know that what separates me from the majority of humanity at a biological level is my body’s inexplicable unending drive to inflict damage upon itself

Anonymous 1d

I like to say that my body hates me

Anonymous 1d

Yeah I try to think of my body as a friend trying its best but in the back of my mind I know that’s not helpful advice for autoimmune folks. For what it’s worth, it is trying, it’s just horribly confused. Sorry you have to endure that.

Anonymous

#1 22h

real. for me I guess the most accurate way to characterize it would be to say that different components of my body are at war with one another for no particular reason

Anonymous

#2 22h

I’m sure that must be a genuinely comforting way of conceptualizing things for plenty of different people, so no disrespect intended of course. I def realize it’s less that the framing itself is a problem and more that I just find it personally triggering but yeah, unfortunately my body’s version of “trying” also includes “trying” to harm itself 😬