The Silent Epidemic and/or “the invisible injury” (+ “the hidden handicap”)
Has this been said to you? Those of us chronically ill or injured have probably been given this all too common line, “You don’t look sick.” Or how about this one, “Well, you look good!”*
If we look sick, we are sick, if we don’t look sick we aren’t. Right? No!
Most people have five senses; taste, touch, see, smell, and hear. Now, we can mistakenly use our sense of sight to judge someone’s sense of touch.
An injured brain can not be seen. The brain is enclosed by the skull and a protective water layer called dura matter (both of which are damaged on me). Injured brains are felt.
Fatigue can not be seen, it’s felt.
We can’t judge a person’s sense of feeling based on our sense of sight.
This is why invisible illness is so misjudged ending up with the ill feeling very much alone.
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This is one thing people do not understand. I will NEVER fully recover because to do so would be to get back to being the person I was, but he is no more. He died in 1994 when I was hit by a car (see Flight of a Lifetime on http://ow.ly/DKc3l). I will never be him again; I am a new me…
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Thanks for the input, Philip
The “new me”:
“I do not bewail what I have lost, because I am at peace with myself. I have fought a hard battle, given it my best, and won far more that I or anyone else ever thought I would.”
https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/category/inspirational-quotes/
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