On another topic completely...

[baratron]

I'm extremely amused by the answers to my moaning poll. There is a strong correlation between the people who have chronic illnesses thinking I don't moan very much, and the healthy people thinking I moan all the time ;) Oh, sure, some healthy people think I don't moan very much, but they're all the ones who have close friends with long-term illness, so presumably they've acquired some empathy from them. Or maybe I just moan less than their other friends with similar problems ;)

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[mhw.livejournal.com]

Um, perhaps it's just that we (of the chronic illnesses) and our friends don't think of what we do as "moaning" - rather just a necessary periodic dump of negative feelings - and so don't characterise your feeling-dumps as "moans". If you'd asked "How often do I express non-positive feelings about my illnesses?" I think you'd have got a different distribution. Because - at least it seems this way to me - you rarely "moan" about anything else - and actually it's those posts where you do that concern me. Not that I don't care about your not being well, more that I understand posts about it as part of the process, if that makes sense.