Tag: chronic illness
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Feeling Like a Stranger in Your Own Life: Identity and Chronic Illness
Chronic illness can make you feel like a stranger in your own life. Guest therapist Sarah Cosway on grief, identity, and rediscovering what makes you you.
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What progress looks like in therapy for chronic illness
Progress in therapy for chronic illness rarely arrives as a moment. It looks like the same life feeling different, with the condition still in it. A therapist on what to look for.
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Therapy for chronic illness: when recovery isn’t the goal
The work isn’t about making the condition smaller. It’s about helping you stop fighting your body, so the energy that was going into that fight becomes available for the life you want to live.
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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Living by your values when chronic illness limits your body
Chronic illness can take your goals, but not your values. The difference between a goal and a value, why losing goals hurts, and how to keep living by what matters when your body has changed.
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Why acceptance isn’t resignation (when you have a chronic illness)
A clear look at what acceptance means in therapy for chronic illness: what gets misunderstood, what it actually involves, and what changes when the wrestle eases.
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Health anxiety & chronic illness: why standard advice backfires
Standard health anxiety advice assumes the threat is imagined. When you have a chronic condition, the clinical work needs a different starting point
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Brain Fog and Derealisation with ‘Normal’ Scans
Experiencing brain fog and derealisation despite normal MRI results? Explore the unique psychological challenge of living when you can’t fully trust your own mind.
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When Your Doctor Says ‘It’s Just Anxiety’ (But You Know It’s Not)
You’re sitting in the GP surgery. Your heart is pounding. You’ve just explained your symptoms: the exhaustion, the pain, the way your body doesn’t feel like it belongs to you anymore. And then your doctor leans back and says it. “It’s just anxiety.” Those three words land like a punch. They dismiss weeks or months…
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When Physical Symptoms Leave You Wondering What’s Really Going On
You wake up with chest tightness. Again. Your first thought races to your heart, but then you remember your doctor said it was anxiety. So you try to breathe through it. But what if they missed something? What if this time it’s different? If you’re living with a chronic health condition, you know this loop…
