When Your Own Body Fights Against You

This is really hard for me. It took me several attempts to write this post. I’ve written a sentence, reread it, and deleted it. Written it again in a different way, crossed half of it out and rewritten that part again. And when I finally had it all together I just left it untouched in my draft folder for almost five months. Although I use the writing process to come to terms with personal problems, this one has been a real battle for me. I have a secret that I carry with me now for some years. It is not a nice one nor one you are eager to share with other people. When mentioning it…