I See You

From living with an autoimmune disorder, MCAS, or POTS, there comes a time when you realize that the world keeps moving at the same speed while your life begins to orbit somewhere outside of it. Friends post photos from weddings, dinners, and weekend trips you declined because your body has become unpredictable. Family gatherings happen while you sit at home assessing whether the pain, fatigue, or brain fog will allow you to show up for even an hour. At first people ask where you’ve been, then they stop asking, and eventually you start to feel like a ghost in your own life. You watch the milestones, the celebrations, the casual get togethers pass by like a train you once rode but can no longer catch. The illness snagged your ticket. The strange part is that nothing dramatic happened in the eyes of the world. Society did not kick you out. Your body just pulled you aside and handed you a different story, one where invisibility becomes a companion and where belonging often feels like something happening somewhere else, for someone else. If you can relate to this invisibility, reach out and we can discuss it.

Dr. Jeffrey Bone