An amazing thing happens when you have an incurable, chronic illness: every person you meet happens to have the cure for your illness.
Isn’t that incredible? It’s somehow never your doctors, or anybody in medical research, or the dozens of other people you’ve spoken to with the same diagnosis; not even your own decade of experience with your illness is a match for the person you just met five minutes ago that has never even heard of your illness when they utter the dreaded question “Have you tried yoga?” People with chronic illnesses hear all kinds of strange comments in response to our health conditions: people tell us about some distant relation who had a similar illness that was cured by celery juice; some people will use the opportunity to try to sell us their MLM products; I’ve even had people ask me if I’m drinking enough water as if that would somehow cure the systemic inflammation in my brain and body.
These insensitive responses are from well-meaning people who only want to help, of course, but they don’t seem to stop to consider that their unsolicited medical advice may be inappropriate and unwanted.
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