Can you be happy when living with chronic illness?

Can you truly be happy when living with a debilitating chronic illness or health condition?The question came up when talking to a friend recently, when I had an emotional meltdown about the incapacitating, chronic ramifications of my traumatic brain injury…

Hang in there! (what NOT to say)

“Hang in there!”This is one phrase to please not ever say to me. It’s one that, unfortunately, several people have said to me even in the past month, let alone the past many years. To the average person, perhaps even…