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I don't know I think in a lot of ways thats exactly what she's getting at. Chronic illnesses are tremendously disenfranchising. It often puts you at the mercy o
by Avshalom 10y ago
I don't know I think in a lot of ways thats exactly what she's getting at. Chronic illnesses are tremendously disenfranchising. It often puts you at the mercy of broken medical and welfare systems. It can force a life thats runs directly counter to huge amounts of the cultural narrative of what we're supposed to do, how we're supposed to act.
- PaulHoule 10y agoThe trouble there is that people use the tools they have available to construct a complete identity around sickness that itself solidifies the disease. Back when I had a bad bout of patellofemoral syndrome I was looking for help on online forums and what I found was people on the forums were not interested in healing, they were interested in spinning stories like "I went to the best orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. and he told me I had the most screwed up knees he'd ever seen and I was so inspired I decided I want to be an orthopedic surgeon when I grow up" To the flip side when I took my very sick cat to the vet and got a prescription for antiviral medications and my cat got a let better, I was impressed with my vet.