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The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/Interesting-Cow-1030 on 2024-10-17 16:11:28+00:00.

While I’m not new to the symptoms, I’m new to the diagnosis, and hearing that it’s not something I can fix simply isn’t settling in my brain. I don’t really believe it, because I’m not ready to mourn the life I was hoping to have, and I’m not ready to accept feeling like this forever.

I had big dreams and all this escalated as soon as I graduated college and squashed them immediately. I’m not sure when to have hope and when to work on acceptance.