My Life with Interstitial Cystitis: How I Survive the Hard Days
I'm having another rest day, and I am not particularly happy about it. Rest days are still an uphill battle for me. I am one of the people who has been forced to believe that they only have value when they are productive members of society. After a lifetime of being told, in no uncertain terms, that it is unacceptable to be unproductive, it's nearly impossible to allow yourself to rest. This is where I am at now. I know that my body needs to rest, but my mind will not allow it. Even when I'm lying down to rest, my brain is going a million miles a minute. I have Bipolar II and am currently in a hypomanic phase , so resting with racing thoughts is becoming even more difficult than before. Today's rest day is brought to us courtesy of frying chicken last night. You got it! All I did all day long was fry chicken for an hour in the evening, and I am in so much pain today that I can hardly even get out of bed. I wa...