What if I don't feel "sick enough" to be considered chronically ill?
myaekingheart
July 19th, 2019
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I've been living with IBS since about 2013/2014, and only just got an official diagnosis in January. Logically I am well aware that IBS is a chronic condition and something I am going to have to deal with for the rest of my life, and that it's caused me a lot of severe pain and trouble over the years (including losing lots of weight and feeling terrified of eating because everything I'd eat in a given period of time made me insanely sick) and yet somehow I still don't feel like I'm sick enough to be allowed to call myself chronically ill. Does anyone else struggle with feelings like this? Or am I really not sick enough to be allowed to call myself chronically ill?