As a person with over a decade of life (16-28) characterized by health issues, this resonates. It can get better. I've been mostly normal for 3 years and I'm we

As a person with over a decade of life (16-28) characterized by health issues, this resonates. It can get better. I've been mostly normal for 3 years and I'm well-treated, although YC/HN-style startups are out of the question (can't risk going without insurance). Health problems are like many natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, earthquakes, heat waves) where it's not the event itself that kills people and causes suffering so much as human failures: looting, under-maintained infrastructure, incompetence by trusted service providers and malfeasance by insurers and various unscrupulous opportunists. When you're sick, the health problem itself is challenging. The continuing onslaught of people failing you (which you'll frequently blame yourself for, especially if it's not clear what's wrong with you) or exploiting your (no matter how intermittent) weakness is demoralizing. Now that I'm well I fight back against human failure and indecency and I will not stop.