Yes. My situation is slightly different, but I suffer from chronic migraines. Every time I get a migraine I blame myself for not sleeping perfectly and not eating perfectly or walking past someone smoking a cigarette. For so long I felt so guilty, when the truth was that I had no control over it because my body is…

You make an excellent point about control.

I wrote a paper in college about child death and the grief surrounding it... in the course of writing the paper I found quite a few books dealing with the grief that many people feel after miscarriages, and how alone they often feel since many people do not even know of their loss - very poignant and sad, indeed.

Yes. It's a window to a reality I will never personally experience, and I am grateful for the words of women who are brave and articulate enough to share it. I found how she felt betrayed by her own body poignant, and how jarring and "wrong" menstruation, which before was probably a relatively routine experience felt…

I took a 2.5 week short term medical leave because I could. I needed the time to heal emotionally more than physically, I pretty much cried non stop for almost 2 weeks. I tried to go back after a week even though I had a note for a month, and they ended up sending me home. I know I am lucky to have had that…

The thing nobody says is how very, very sad and upsetting miscarriages are.

This is sad, but also really fascinating in a clinical sense. Humans love to think that they have control in their lives, but control is so fleeting even in the best cases. Look at how little control we even have over our own bodies.