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	<title>Chronic Twenties</title>
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	<description>Two Twenty-Something Gals and Their Stories of Living with Chronic Illnesses</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>De-Stress. Now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
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Your doctor has probably told you that stress will cause flare ups.  Regardless of the chronic illness, stress is an easy (and valid) scapegoat.  Stress gets you agitated. Stress raises your blood pressure.  Stress causes flares and inflammation and pain.  Stress is stressful to think about it.
Before it turns into a cyclical mess, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Support: Outside &amp; In</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/finding-support-outside-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Positive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[asking for help]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[support]]></category>

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One of the toughest thing about being “chronic” in your twenties is that your peers just don’t get it. You know what I’m talking about. Most folks in their teens, twenties and sometimes into their thirties believe that their body is a machine, created to do as the mind instructs. Typically, if you speak to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Talk About Disease?</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/how-do-you-talk-about-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
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Last week, I traveled to California for a yoga workshop. It was a fun and playful experience. But because of the nature of the type of physical practice, I found that I needed to share the details of my disease with the organizers and a few participants. 
Generally speaking, everyone was very supportive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FML - Looking for a Pragmatic Approach to Anger</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/fml-looking-for-a-pragmatic-approach-to-anger/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/fml-looking-for-a-pragmatic-approach-to-anger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[FML]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frustration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having this disease makes me feel a lot of things.  Pain, frustration, resentment, and more often than I like to admit, I feel angry.  I get pissed off and upset about the fact that I can&#8217;t do the things I want to do, that my body doesn&#8217;t allow me to maintain a regular schedule (you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference a Year and a Half Makes</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/the-difference-a-year-and-a-half-makes/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/the-difference-a-year-and-a-half-makes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Positive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[healing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[acupuncture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alternative health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lifestyle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Meds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[meds free]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve totally dropped the ball on keeping up with this blog. It&#8217;s been a year and a half since my last post about not wanting to take my meds. Perhaps it is apropos that that was my last post, since it is now a year and a half later, and in a few days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Amusement</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/chronic-amusement/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/chronic-amusement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Positive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic illness cat]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[laughing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chronictwenties.com/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A girlfriend and student of mine turned me on to the Chronic Illness Cat, a sort of LOL catz for chronics. The pal has her own chronic status and we bonded over that &#8212; it&#8217;s amazing how you find the support that you need, when you need it. But I digress.
Chronic Illness Cat cracked me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflammation Awareness and the Judging Response</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/inflammation-awareness-and-the-judging-response/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/inflammation-awareness-and-the-judging-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[inflammation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[judging response]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pain aversion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pissy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few things have become clear to me in the past few weeks:

I have a general aversion to pain.
I get quite pissy when I&#8217;m agitated.

At first glance, these both seem obvious and potentially experiences that are universally human.  So let me explain.
Pain Aversion 
Rather than feeling pain, physical or emotional, I tend to change the subject, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About Sex&#8230; and RA</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/lets-talk-about-sex-and-ra/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/lets-talk-about-sex-and-ra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[celebrities with disease]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chronic illness and sex drive]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[decreased libido]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ra]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[yahoo news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study found that libido is negatively impacted by rheumatoid arthritis.  This by way of a site called Celebrities with Diseases, through my google alert of course.  :-)  I was a little disappointed that the site that reported on this research didn&#8217;t name any celebrities affected by the disease or its side effects&#8211;I kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging with Chronic Illness</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/aging-with-chronic-illness/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/aging-with-chronic-illness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[getting older]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[having children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my birthday.  Yes, there is going to be much celebrating.  Yes, there will be cake, and yoga, and Ethiopian food and all the other things I love (including my fabulously supportive fella D).
However, in the back of my mind, I&#8217;m always concerned about what comes next.  I was diagnosed a little over four years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea (may) Cause RA?</title>
		<link>http://chronictwenties.com/tea-may-cause-ra/</link>
		<comments>http://chronictwenties.com/tea-may-cause-ra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[causes of RA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drcutler.com]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical study]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Google alert continues to bring me odd information about my disease.
Yesterday, I came across this article over at DrCutler.com discussing the results of a study at the Georgetown University Medical Center.  According the article, &#8220;Researchers studied 76,643 women between the ages of 50 and 79 for their results. They found that consuming any amount [...]]]></description>
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