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How To Support Someone With Chronic Illness: 8 Tips to Help
Would you like to know how to support someone with chronic illness, or do you want to give advice to your loved ones about how to best support you? This blog post explains why coping with a chronic illness is difficult, how social support can benefit the patient, and 8 tips on how to show your support.
Dealing With Chronic Illness in School
Do you want to educate a friend, classmate, family member or teacher about the challenges of dealing with chronic illness in school? This 9 minute video sheds light on the experiences of school-aged children (ages 8-17) with health conditions. They discuss how illness affects multiple aspects of their lives, including mental health, school and grades, extracurriculars, and more.
Dear Teacher… Helping Teachers to See Invisible Illness Part 1 and Part 2
Do you wish your teacher understood your illness better? Do you want school to be easier and more fair for you and other kids like you? These letters were written by a mom whose kids have chronic illnesses. They help teachers learn how to support kids with health problems—both in class and outside of it.
You Look Okay To Me – YouTube Channel
The YouTube channel You Look Okay To Me is run by a young woman living with chronic illness. She makes 5-20 minute video essays discussing a variety of topics, including “The chronic illness guide to working from home”, “Why is it so hard to describe my pain”, and “Things not to say to someone with a chronic illness”.
She also discusses intersections between being chronically ill and being a person of colour (POC), offering a perspective that is crucial in understanding the experiences of marginalized groups.Â
Check out her instagram @youlookokaytome for reels and posts you can relate to!
My Life With Chronic Illness | Venus Williams
In this 12-minute video, professional tennis star Venus Williams talks about her journey with Autoimmune Disease. She discusses how to get diagnosed, how to improve symptoms, how illness affects her life, and general advice for anyone dealing with a long-term illness.
Her story is a reminder that your illness doesn’t define you. You can achieve your dreams if you believe in yourself!
To Be Seen – Buoy’s Chronic Illness Campaign
This 7-minute video is a chronic illness campaign that sheds light on navigating high school with a new diagnosis. Watch this on your own to relate to the experience, or share this with your friends to start the conversation on what it means to be a young person with a health condition.
Disclaimer: We do not endorse the product that the company is selling at the end of the video.
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