Subscribe to our newsletter. As early as 1684, Dr. Thomas Willis wrote of the sadness or long sorrow that accompanies many chronic illnesses.
Chronic illnesses are depressing.
And the depression they cause often exacerbates the illness. Pain that never completely goes away. Difficult to measure. Going from doctor to doctor to find the cause is exhausting and frustrating. Friends and family, sympathetic at first, often tire of the burden of driving us to appointments, to surgeries, of hearing how much pain we're in today.