Chronic Illness

A chronic illness is a health condition or disease that is persistent in its effects or a disease that comes with time. The term chronic is often used if the condition lasts longer than 3 months.

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15 People With Chronic Illnesses You Should Be Following on Instagram

Living with chronic illness can be lonely, which is why it’s important to find others who understand what you’re going through. When you need to recharge and practice self-care, it often helps to have tools to take your mind away from reality for a little while. But sometimes, looking at reality —and turning to others...

Stop Telling People With a Chronic Illness to 'Try Yoga'

An amazing thing happens when you have an incurable, chronic illness: every person you meet happens to have the cure for your illness. Isn’t that incredible? It’s somehow never your doctors, or anybody in medical research, or the dozens of other people you’ve spoken to with the same diagnosis; not even your own decade of...

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