{"id":30,"date":"2005-03-19T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-19T11:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladle\/wordpress\/?p=30"},"modified":"2005-03-19T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-19T11:26:56","slug":"fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nWhy am I so ill now?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nBecause I am suffering from a somatic disorder where I perpetuate my own beliefs about illness<br \/>\nBecause I took 10 years&#8217; of antibiotics when I was young<br \/>\nBecause I am depressed<br \/>\nBecause I have anxiety disorder<br \/>\nBecause I internalised my parents fighting, manufacturing illness<br \/>\nBecause I have an poorly-understood organic disease called CFS\/M.E.<br \/>\nBecause I am on too many drugs for anxiety and sleeplessness<br \/>\nBecause God is punishing me<br \/>\nBecause I am having codeine withdrawal<br \/>\nBecause the universe likes to experiment on people<br \/>\nBecause the medical diet I am on is making me iller<br \/>\nBecause I am perpetuating my own anxiety as illness myth<br \/>\nBecause I am suffering from chronic lack of stage four sleep<br \/>\nBecause I have subconscious reasons to gain from remaining ill<br \/>\nBecause I was bitten by a tick and have unrecognised Lyme disease<br \/>\nBecause I grew up transgendered, and my unhappiness results in physical symptoms<br \/>\nBecause I am self-pitying<br \/>\nBecause I have an undetected illness such as MS<br \/>\nBecause I am chronically lonely through lack of social interaction<br \/>\nBecause my anxiety about my hearing loss has driven me to self-isolation<br \/>\nBecause I am a weak person<br \/>\nBecause I have hidden mercury poisoning<br \/>\nBecause some people are not built to survive, and current society prolongs their existence artificially<br \/>\nBecause I have a brain tumour<br \/>\nBecause I lack courage<br \/>\nBecause I am a bad person, and am being paid back for it<br \/>\nBecause I have chronic candida which is affecting my whole immune system<br \/>\nBecause I have no courage to lift myself out of this state<br \/>\nBecause I have hidden severe allergies<br \/>\nBecause my unhappy childhood set my brain and body on a course of self-hurt<br \/>\nBecause I have an as-yet misunderstood immune system dysfunction<br \/>\nBecause I am a scientific experiment in a simulated world<br \/>\nBecause some things are supposed to be<br \/>\nBecause I won&#8217;t get out of bed, rather than can&#8217;t<br \/>\nBecause my mother passed on a polio-type illness she contracted to me via the womb<br \/>\nBecause there are no reasons, and the universe is unkind and unknowing<br \/>\nBecause I sleep outside my natural circadian rhythm of daylight and nighttime<br \/>\nBecause I deserve it<br \/>\nBecause I ask questions like this, while so many are so much iller, more unhappy, more anxious\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"darkness\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/darkness-small.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I so ill now? Because I am suffering from a somatic disorder where I perpetuate my own beliefs about illness Because I took 10 years&#8217; of antibiotics when I was young Because I am depressed Because I have anxiety disorder Because I internalised my parents fighting, manufacturing illness Because I have an poorly-understood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fears<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumblings.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}