For invisible diagnoses

A library for clients living inside bodies that have changed.

Most of your clients have been told, at some point, that they don’t look sick. The slow grief of becoming a different kind of body, and the slower work of building a life around it, is rarely covered well in medical literature.

The newly diagnosed client trying to understand a body that has become unreliable. The long-haul client whose pain has become baseline. The client whose disability is invisible and who is exhausted from explaining.

Transitional.life meets these clients without performance and without minimization.

Featured Companions for this work

Living With Chronic Pain — When ‘fine’ becomes relative
For pain as baseline.
Your Diagnosis Is Invisible — When sick doesn’t look sick
For the invisibly ill.
Becoming Disabled — When the world wasn’t built for you
For disability adjustment.
Your Body Changes Permanently — When ability becomes past tense
For post-illness body grief.
The Diagnosis That Explains Everything — Relief and grief
For long-awaited diagnosis.

The clinical concept lookup

The clinical lookup includes chronic illness adjustment, identity reconstruction, ableism, and existential fatigue.

Questions

Are these appropriate for autoimmune, EDS, ME/CFS, or long COVID populations?: Yes. The booklets describe the experience of unreliable bodies in ways that are recognizable across diagnoses.

For the bodies that have changed.