The Emotional Toll on Figuring Fibro Pain
I feel guilty a lot and for no good reason. For some reason, probably a virus, started spinning up around 11 PM on Thursday night all the way through Friday. I had to call out of work. On other days, when they try to call me into my part-time job I look at someone in my family, boyfriend, or best friend to see if I should go in or not? If no one is around, I go in. I’ll do this in spite of anything else that I should be doing instead, such as taking care of myself. But today, even after whatever it was that subsided sometime after noon, I felt out of sorts and sapped of all energy. When I don’t feel guilty, I often feel like a failure or an imposter. So this emotional roller coaster that plays in my head I force to be quiet and try to lose myself in the busyness of life. These thoughts will always be there. I have accepted that. Sure I could take the emotion out, yell at it for a few rounds, and pretend to toss the damn thing out. But they always sneak the...