[ SECRET POST #2443 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2443 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Sailor Moon]


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03.
[Taken]


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04.
[Hetalia]


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05.
[John and Edward Grimes/Jedward]


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06.
[Zoolander]


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[X-Files]


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08.
[Amanda Palmer and Paula Deen]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[Corporal Rivaille from Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan]


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Comments

Re: Diagnosis: fucked up

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Before I was diagnosed with Celiac, I weighed 350+ pounds. When i started losing weight, I thought it was due to trying to eat better and work through my emotional eating habits. Within 2 years, i went from size 24-26 clothing down to size 16.

Then the pain started. Lying on a bed, crying because my belly hurt so damn bad that I couldn't function. Freaking Vicodin for a damn year because my doctor was lazy and treating the symptoms without looking for a cause. I ended up a very sickly 150 lbs or so, barely able to walk, in constant pain.

The bright side is this: one week after stopping wheat and dairy, my pain levels subsided from a constant 6/10 to a mere 2. A week after that, I was off pain meds. Almost 3 years later,I'm metabolizing food again and pain only comes when I eat something contaminated by gluten. I have a life now, I feel better.

It's not weakness to be sick, OP. I know that's what your culture tells you but it's not quite correct. Letting your body get to the point where it's all or nothing, either a machine that keeps plugging or a pile of junk, is bad management. You may not be sick in the sense of having a real illness, you may just need a tune-up to reach optimum health/functionality. I hope that you'll consider finding some compromise between your needs and the stigma you seem to believe being ill brings.

TL:dr-- It sux to be so sick that you're incapacitated. Please consider seeing a doctor, especially one who might come from your own cultural background, because it's not meaningless and you deserve to be well and happy.

Re: Diagnosis: fucked up

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Thank you for being kind, this kind of made me misty eyed. Honestly, health as a holistic concept didn't exist for me until recently, and the idea that self worth doesn't come from health, that it's something everybody should have and be, is almost... sweet?

You're right that it's bad management, at least for this culture that I'm living in. And it does suck to be incapacitated; I've been in situations for the past 5 years where I probably should have been incapacitated for my own good, but my cultural teachings told me to fucking get up and get on with it, instead of seeking help.

I mean, some of this is due to the more recent, young adult (19-20) experience I had, as well. I lost about 15 lbs in two weeks one summer, and another 10 the following month, with my whole family watching. I went from 125 to 100 lbs in 2 months. They could see how sick I was, I couldn't eat, I slept constantly when I wasn't working. Like, I would sleep on the floor in between chores. But I survived, being sick didn't slow people down, and they didn't take me to the doctor.

So until I ended up in the emergency room last year from losing consciousness and seizing, that was pretty much how I treated getting sick. Just keep going.

Objectively, all of this sounds so fucked up, oh my jesus.