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Chronic Illness 12w

Why does not having been hospitalized make me feel fake 😭

Anonymous 12w

I felt the same way (I was just recently hospitalized for the first time though). I was hospitalized for an acute issue mostly unrelated to my chronic illnesses so I don’t really feel any different but people are definitely taking my chronic issues more seriously now which is annoying. I’m no sicker than I was before the hospital but now it’s somehow more valid to people

Anonymous 12w

if it helps, i feel like i get worse every time ive been hospitalized lol. trust you’re not missing out on anything

Anonymous 12w

being in the hospital is horrible and as my nurse once told me, people only get sicker in there! you can be chronically ill and not require hospitalization. hospitals only really help with very specific situations. they basically stabilize you and that’s it. no treatment or diagnosis

Anonymous

#2 12w

real

Anonymous

#1 12w

I know it’s not desirable and I didn’t have a fun time when I was in observation in the ER for a couple days, it just feels like I’m not sick enough to call myself chronically ill I guess

Anonymous

OP 12w

some people have chronic illness and still function completely normally. you don’t have to be “sick” to be chronically ill. you just have to have some sort of illness that lasts more than 1 month, sometimes 6 months depending on the illness.

Anonymous

#3 12w

You are valid as a chronically ill person. You have some sort of illness that is chronic, therefore you are chronically ill. You are no less valid as a chronically ill person than a chronically ill person who has been hospitalized