fibromyalgia, endometriosis, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and many others. In no particular order, these traits are – an automatic and compulsive concern for the emotional needs of others, while ignoring one’s own; – rigid identification with social role, duty, and responsibility (which is closely related to the next point); – overdriven, externally focused multitasking hyper-responsibility, based on the conviction that one must justify one’s existence by doing and giving; – repression of healthy, self-protective aggression and anger; and – harboring
...more
