“Personally, my disability was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. It is difficult. It is painful. It is exhausting.”
IBD is a pretty hard thing to deal with. As an invisible illness, people can’t see everything going on inside my body. My body is waging a war against itself and no one can see it when they first look at me. I’ve gotten quite a few reactions when I tell someone about my ulcerative colitis.
Today I talk about how I found what coping skill worked best for me to manage my IBD and my mental health.