u/Unable_Particular_25

Seriously, sick for more than a decade, at this point I don't even try to explain how I'm doing or what it's like to people. I'm lucky to have some family members who help me with different things and some old friends I'm still in touch with, but I've come to a point where it just feels like this illness is too specific and bad for remotely healthy people to even begin to comprehend. It's extremely, intolerably lonely, but not as lonely as I feel when I'm around other people. Are we just incapable of empathy about certain things?