Struggling with Work and Symptoms

it really does help! I appreciate the love radiating off this message. Thank you💕

It's not your fault. When you constantly feel ill, you're already expending so much energy trying to just.. endure the symptoms and slog through despite them. With your body screaming at you to rest, or slow down or lie down, etc, it's hard to keep going with normal activities because eventually you're just wiped. It might not be a bad idea to reduce your hours if you can. I promise you're not a failure, you're doing your best and that's all you can expect of yourself at the end of the day. Living with a chronic illness like this is pretty much life on hard mode. You should be proud of yourself for how much you *do* manage day to day. But I know it's hard not to feel like it's not enough sometimes. I struggle with the same thing daily, so I know how you feel. But I hope at least hearing from someone else that it *is* enough helps, even a little