Is it Me?

It's now 2021 and I started this journey in Wisconsin while attending middle school in the 80's, when I can remember a debilitating episode of stomach pain. Since then, I have always dealt with some form of joint pain, or chronic pain and I don't mean "growing pains". I have always questioned my own psychological state. Was I to blame for creating a body that felt like a prison?

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