Has this ever happened to you? You’re walking around town, and all of sudden you become overwhelmed by the totality of all that’s happening all around you – cars whizzing by, pedestrians brushing past, loud music playing, the sun beating down on you, two people having an...
Check out our live stream video recording where we discuss this topic in detail. When I ask fibro people about their social life, they often respond “What social life?!” A lot of fibro folks arrive at this place eventually through a gradual agony of social miscues...
Check out our live stream video recording where we discuss this topic in detail. Brace yourselves for a heavy but super important topic this week: depression and its relationship to fibromyalgia. In this post, we’re going to cover symptoms of clinical depression, how fibro fits in, and...
Hey there. I’m Tyler, Linda’s partner. When Linda asked me to write an article talking about how her fibromyalgia affects our relationship and my experience of it, I was like…”oh boy, jumping in the deep end, huh?” It’s a little confronting, a little...
Ah, romance. The source of the highest highs and the lowest lows in life. Falling in love can seem like a fairy tale, but when you have fibromyalgia, it’s not as simple as “happily ever after.” The fact that one of you has a chronic pain condition and the other...
I read a heart-breaking post on Reddit this week about a young woman named Kelly who took her own life after a long and drawn-out battle with fibromyalgia-related chronic pain and depression. Her partner went to speak more about Kelly’s life and struggles: “Kelly earned her...
The Problem: Isolation Isolation. Feeling alone in your pain. Over and over again I’m hearing this echoed among fellow fibromyalgia sufferers: On a long enough timeline, it’s something we all must grapple with, as people we once thought of as friends and confidants gradually...
