Advertisements When you have an invisible disability people often assume that finding employment is easier than if you had a visible disability because you don’t have to disclose your disability like you do with a visible disability. Finding a job when you have a visible...
Tag: invisible illness
The Harsh Realities Of Living With Frequent Headaches And Migraines
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
May 13, 2021
Advertisements Living with frequent headaches or migraines can be hard because there is so much stigma around migraine or headache disorders and the only people that truly understand that migraines are not just a headache are other sufferers. Most people think that whenever we have...
How Can You Beat Depression When You Can’t Afford Therapy?
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 31, 2020
Advertisements There are millions of people who suffer from depression. Some people are able to get the help they need by attending therapy or taking medication but unfortunately, not everyone can afford these treatments. It is not uncommon for a disabled person to suffer from...
How Chronic Migraines Affects Friendships
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 27, 2020
Advertisements Migraines or any type of chronic pain pretty much affects everything you do including the relationships you build with your friends. For the most part, our friends understand us as much as we understand them but that can all change as soon as your...
How Filmmakers Can Make Movies With Disabled Characters Better
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 26, 2020
Advertisements I am always looking for new movies about disabled people but to be totally honest every time I watch one about a disabled person I am very disappointed. Filmmakers do not hire actual disabled people to play disabled characters but instead, they hire abled...
Advertisements When you have chronic pain people often think they understand you because they know you personally but then when they say something insensitive towards your pain it show they really don’t understand. They never will understand what your going through because untless you have...
How To Be Supportive Of People With Conditions Affecting Your Gut
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 25, 2020
Advertisements When you have any condition that affects the gi tract such as IBS it can be very stressful to go anywhere because you are constantly worried that you are going to have a flare and get embarrassed in front of your friends and family....
Advertisements Over the last month, I have been interning at an employment agency to try to get some job skills that I can put on my job resume. I have done something like this before but it was an entirely different experience because my first...
When Friends Don’t Believe Your Disablity Exists
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 21, 2020
Advertisements My last friendship did not end well because one of my friends did not understand my migraines and she thought they could be easily treated through medication. Instead of asking me for more information about my disability she assumed Hydrocephalus wasn’t a thing and...
What People Can’t See About Life With Chronic Pain
posted by: My Rockin Disabled Life
August 15, 2020
Advertisements When you live with chronic pain there is always more than meets the eye! You see what chronic pain sufferers want you to see and more often than not it is nothing compared to what we actually live with on a day to day...