That may be a fine idea if you're eyeing the clutter on the living room floor, or a pile or two of old magazines and catalogues collecting dust in a corner.
Chronic illness is never a welcomed guest in anyone's life.
However, when it becomes a visitor in yours, in many cases, it's there to stay. How you cope with your illness will determine, in great part, how well you live your life. Making a place in your life for your illness may sound like a strange thing to do, but it's a crucial step in learning how to cope with illness and putting it in its place. Then you can begin to interact with it and make a place for it. When you deny your illness, you close yourself off to yourself, and you shut down.