Chronic Chronicism

     I must start out by apologizing to all of you for the delay in posting, but to be perfectly honest the following subject is very personal to me, so I needed the additional time to prepare for writing it. It is very personal due to the fact that millions of followers of this blog suffer from the condition we will discuss tonight, and even some people who are very close to me. Be that as it may I was finally convicted enough to break the silence about a disorder we call chronic chronicism.
     Chronic chronicism is a medical condition in which the affected individual frequently has some sort of aliment with vague side effects that inhibit their lives. These side effects can vary widely from one person to the next and someone can have different symptoms with each flare-up. Often times when someone is having a flare-up they describe feeling "blah". Feeling "blah" is one of the few symptoms that many victims of chronic chronicism have in common, and can best be described as a feeling of sub-par health without the ability to point to anything specific bothering them. Here is an example:

Person A: "Do you want to go to the moving picture show this evening?"

Person B: "Not this evening, I'm feeling kind of 'blah'."

Person A: "Oh my, what seems to be your aliment? Is it your stomach?"

Person B: "No, it is not my stomach, I just feel...'blah'."
   
     Chronic chronicism is often times triggered by a sudden wave of added stress to one's life. This added stress normally comes in the form of some kind of responsibility being delegated to that individual, such as asking them to go to work, school, doing chores, or helping with children. Here is an example:

Parent: "Son, would you please clean up your room and then remove the waste from the kitchen waste

receptacle?"

Child (who obviously has chronic chronicism): "But Mom, I don't feel good!"

Parent: "But you were feeling fine just moments ago while engaging in that latest video cartridge."

Child: "I know, but now I don't feel good! Leave me alone!"
    
     Do you see what happened there? This child was feeling fine until the parent placed an unnecessarily large amount of stress on him all at once in the form of chores, triggering the chronic chronicism flare-up. Although this is quite common with children and adolescence it also affects adults. Everyone knows someone who calls into work frequently causing irritation and often added responsibility (i.e. being forced to do the work they would do if they had come to work), but before you just assume they are lazy please consider they may be suffering from chronic chronicism.
     The biggest problem with chronic chronicism is that it cannot be diagnosed. In fact, there are some in the medical field that believe, along with migraines and fibrormyalgia, it is not a real disorder at all. However, anyone who suffers or knows someone who suffers from chronic chronicism knows the pain is all too real. It makes me sad that just because someone has no facts or evidence to back up their claims of constantly not feeling well and therefore dodging daily responsibilities someone else would assume they are making it up. If you know someone that displays these symptoms please be patient with them instead of lashing out in anger, because it may not be there fault. Support chronic chronicism awareness and together we can find a cure. Thank you and goodnight!