My healthy friends keep suggesting new treatments they read about online and I know they mean well but I'm tired of being their project to fix. Sometimes I just want to be seen as a person, not a problem to solve.
More people experience this than they realize.
Others' discomfort with unsolvable suffering transforms the ill person into a repository for false solutions.
“Where Are You with Chronic illness — living with a long condition?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.