Jason describes the symptoms he lives with and how hard it is to function day to day.
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Yeah, so the symptoms that I’ve described tend to be quite connected to one another and as one symptom flares up it tends to cause the other issues to be exacerbated. So for instance, the worse my gastrointestinal issues get, the worse my maintenance insomnia gets and, of course, by extension like the sleep disruptions worsen; fatigue, depression and anxiety during the day. So there have been periods where those sets of symptoms together have been almost debilitating in so far that I am not able to complete the work that I need to do, and other times it being more manageable … It’s been really hard. Like, for the most part I just force myself to work through them … I’m kind of stuck in this languishing state a lot of the time where it’s not so bad that I needed to, say, go on disability, but at the same time I’m definitely not thriving and definitely not kind of – definitely not doing well and feeling good on a day-to-day basis.
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