![]() ![]() Bright’s patients, and Adam is one of his classmates. By signing up you agree to our terms of useĬaleb and Adam, two beloved characters from the podcast, are the protagonists of The Infinite Noise. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. But these feelings continue to elude me when it comes to the experience of chronic illness and its mental health effects. When I finally, in recent years, began to see parts of myself represented more and more, I discovered the spark of warmth caused by feeling validated, and came to crave these moments more and more. For a long time, they served as an escape from my own life, not a reflection of it. And the inability to share my experience with others, simply because no one else has lived it and can’t truly know it, sinks me deeper and deeper into darkness and isolation.įor most of my life, books weren’t a place where I could see myself. ![]() ![]() This is the mental toll caused by living with chronic illness and experiencing its medical repercussions. I’d all but forgotten what it felt like to be able to do simple tasks without even thinking, and no longer had the capacity to imagine a future without constant pain and discomfort. I was still attached to an IV, suffering from insomnia, and unable to do so much as shower on my own. When I read Lauren Shippen’s The Infinite Noise, it was about three weeks out from my release from a long hospital stay and six weeks out from my fourth open heart surgery. ![]()
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