Chronic illness visualized with Minecraft.
Being bedridden or housebound with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, long COVID, POTS, or some other chronic illness is hard enough. How it looks on the outside, compared to the battle we experience on the inside, can make it even harder.
In addition to pain and fatigue, one hidden foe for people with chronic illness is criticism for long periods of rest. Accusations of being lazy or giving up. Meanwhile, your body is fighting, trying to recover, sometimes failing.
But you keep playing! You respawn. You return to the battles, even ones you can’t win. That’s what it means to be the hero. Success is not measured by the number of bugs you kill but by your willingness to endure.
