December 16, 2025

How To Accept Chronic Illness or Disability Gracefully?


Maybe it happens all of a sudden: you're crossing the street in a clearly marked crosswalk and a car runs a red light and hits you. And your body is never the same again.

Or maybe it's the onset of a peculiar minor symptom, followed by more strange little symptoms, all of which get more alarming and eventually turn out to have a common, unfixable cause.

Possibly it's just the inevitable, but still disagreeable, result of getting older. Organs and other body parts begin to fail in ways that are not reversible.

But the bottom line is: you are no longer "healthy" in the way you used to be, and you probably never will be again, and the best you can do is try to accept this and move forward.

But how?

Oh wait... maybe you thought I was proposing an answer? No, I was asking YOU, because I seem to really suck at this whole acceptance thing.