How sick are we?

I feel like I post here every five seconds but there’s so much to ask!

I know everyone here is very much in varying amounts of pain, and varying amounts of being able to function.

But to what degree are we part of the chronically ill? Or of chronic pain havers?

I feel like in other subs pertaining to illness don’t really belong. I think a lot of us push through, or were once able to, or maybe don’t have that choice.

I often cry about it as stupid as it sounds. I cry about how I can’t want something, because having it isn’t about hard work, or effort, or grit. I and all of you have those things. It’s about… something just being impossible. And it feels like a knife.

Maybe it’s capitalism, maybe it’s how I grew up, but I always thought, to be human is to be limitless. And about how people born without a limb or with cancer or whatever are the ones we feel bad for and move on. But not of the clear reality that it CAN be you.

All that to say, how do you explain this disorder, how do you make the degree of much this sucks, tangible?