Suicide Is Not The Answer

“I can’t keep doing this” is a phrase many in the chronic illness community can related to. It can be the unrelenting pain and discomfort, the emotional toll year after year. But ending your life doesn’t actually solve the problem you think it does, because it just eliminates the part of you that’s capable of experiencing anything different. The goal isn’t to suddenly love your life or pretend your illness is a gift, that’s nonsense. The goal is to get brutally honest about this: if suffering is unavoidable, then the only real leverage you have left is how you relate to it. Not fixing it. Not conquering it. Just refusing to let it be the sole author of your story. Because even now, in the middle of something that feels unfixable, there are still choices about attention, meaning, and what you do with the next ten minutes. And those choices aren’t glamorous, but they’re real. And as long as they’re real, you’re not done yet.

Dr. Jeff Bone

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