{"id":1714,"date":"2009-09-16T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:27:17","slug":"whered-my-invisible-illness-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/09\/16\/whered-my-invisible-illness-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;d my invisible illness go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This meme ganked from arahitogami.<\/p>\n<p>1. The illnesses I live with are:<br \/>Anxiety disorder, depressive episodes.<br \/><!--more 29 more answers--><br \/>2. I was diagnosed with it in the year:<br \/>2001.<\/p>\n<p>3. But I had symptoms since:<br \/>Er, at least since the age of 7 or 8.<\/p>\n<p>4. The biggest adjustment(s) I&#8217;ve had to make is\/are:<br \/>Changing my concept of myself to fit the fact that I have a condition that must be managed.<\/p>\n<p>5. Most people assume:<br \/>That I don&#8217;t have these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>6. The hardest part about mornings is:<br \/>??<\/p>\n<p>7. My favorite medical TV show is:<br \/>House MD. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/362868.html\">&quot;THE&nbsp;PATIENT&nbsp;POOPS&nbsp;A&nbsp;LUNG.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8. A gadget I couldn&#8217;t live without is:<br \/>My laptop computer! Wait&#8230;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what this question is about.<\/p>\n<p>9. The hardest part about nights is:<br \/>Finding enough quiet to sleep. Also getting to a comfortable temperature. How is this relevant?<\/p>\n<p>10. Each day I take [?] pills &amp; vitamins.<br \/>Sertraline, budeprion, aripiprazole, women&#8217;s multivitamin, fish oil capsule, oyster shell calcium.<\/p>\n<p>11. Regarding alternative treatments, I:<br \/>Eschew them because they are unregulated and who knows how they might interact with my regimen, which I worked several years to effectively construct?<\/p>\n<p>12. If I had to choose between an invisible illness and a visible one, I would choose:<br \/>That&#8217;s a choice? On what planet?<\/p>\n<p>13. Regarding working and career:<br \/>For some of us, &quot;mental health days&quot; are actual, real sick days.<\/p>\n<p>14. People would be surprised to know:<br \/>I&#8217;m still recovering from being depressed and anxious for a majority of my life.<\/p>\n<p>15. The hardest thing to accept about my new reality is:<br \/>I can&#8217;t go off the pills just because spring has come and I feel happier.<\/p>\n<p>16. Something I never thought I could do with my illness was:<br \/>Live without isolation and a nagging sense of bleakness.<\/p>\n<p>17. The commercials about my illness:<br \/>Are ridiculously melodramatic. See my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astonishedhead.com\/image s\/OVOID.swf\">parody<\/a> of the old animated Zoloft ads.<\/p>\n<p>18. Something I really miss doing since I was diagnosed:<br \/>Not taking 6 pills a day!<\/p>\n<p>19. It was really hard to give up:<br \/>Not taking 6 pills a day!<\/p>\n<p>20. A new hobby I&#8217;ve taken up since my diagnosis is:<br \/>Coincidentally enough, my answer is the same as Kinjou&#8217;s: 1:6 geekery.<\/p>\n<p>21. If I could have one day of feeling normal again, I would:<br \/>But I feel normal NOW! It was only when I wasn&#8217;t in treatment that I felt abnormal, although I was so used to my abnormality that I assumed it was normal.<\/p>\n<p>22. My illness has taught me:<br \/>That I cannot control all &#8212; in fact, most &#8212; aspects of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>23. Want to know a secret? One thing people say (about my illness) that gets under my skin is:<br \/>&quot;Sheer force of will can bootstrap you out of your slump!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>24. But I love it when people:<br \/>Understand how my conditions have shaped my life.<\/p>\n<p>25. My favorite motto, scripture, quote that gets me through tough times is:<br \/>&quot;And this too shall pass away.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>26. When someone is diagnosed I like to tell them:<br \/>&quot;Get in treatment! I&nbsp;cannot recommend enough the services of a paid, disinterested professional [that&#8217;s a therapist] and also pills. These two may not work for you, but they have helped me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>27. Something that has surprised me about living with an illness is:<br \/>It can really complicate personal relationships.<\/p>\n<p>28. The nicest thing someone did for me when I wasn&#8217;t feeling well was:<br \/>Asked, &quot;How can&nbsp;I help?&quot; and then listened to me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>29. I&#8217;m involved with Invisible Illness Week because:<br \/>I&#8217;m not involved. I just did this meme because Kinjou did it.<\/p>\n<p>30. The fact that you read this list makes me feel:<br \/>Incredibly nervous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This meme ganked from arahitogami. 1. 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