Living with a chronic illness means adapting all areas of your life to fit around it. It might mean changing the way you work or how much time you spend with loved ones.
This can cause conflict with the people in our lives, as they don’t fully comprehend the impact of our illness. To help with this, we might decide to have an open conversation with our family and friends, to help them understand why we are putting certain things in place or what our lives may look like in the future now that we have a chronic illness to manage.
If you’ve been in this position before, you will know the issues that can arise when having these conversations, particularly with the closest people in our lives.
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