rigid management

I know this is hard to take in because most people don't have to be crazy rigid about these things. But for me, the stakes are higher. I have a chronic health condition. If I do not essentially focus my life on managing that chronic health condition, it will consume me. Absolutely.

I basically have two choices. I can learn to take excellent care of myself and follow through with rigid and disciplined approach—which is hard, frustrating, and unfair. But that's one of my choices. And my condition is well-managed for the most part.

Or I can try to live like everybody else and watch my life fall apart because my brain cannot handle that. Doing things like consuming alcohol or staying up too late can send me on a spiral that lasts months, during which time I find it hard to do anything.

Neither one of those is a great choice. I wish there was a third choice, which is just live like a normal person and have a good life. I didn't get that choice. These were the two options that I was handed. And if you have any chronic medical condition, then you have a similar set of options.

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