Kevin Coleman

Having to deal with various forms of depression and anxiety, as well as type 1 diabetes, I think I qualify. After becoming aware of some of these, I eventually started pushing back against them, and have had decent success with out-of-the-box advice and practitioners...meaning that not only am I still alive, but I enabled my body to clear up or back off some serious shit.  (Feel free to ask me.)

So, I have to say that a lot of hidden disabilities are a failure of the healthcare system, or rather "illness maintenance" system. Most health professionals mean well, but they exist in a system that can't even admit that healing exists, much less apply it.

Don't be satisfied by anything mainstream, always ask questions, and keep looking until you get affordable, meaningful, and sensible explanations and applications. You don't have to accept any chronic condition.

In the meantime, feel free to wear a sunflower so we can all recognize each other.

I've been able to push myself to add small amounts of insects and invertebrates from my gardening into my stew, where they are just about unnoticeable.  I drop them into the boiling water like lobster to kill them as quickly and humanely as possible.  

Of course, I kill / eat only the ones that are harmful or would not survive being returned to the earth, like May and June beetle grubs...which need to be cooked for a while to soften their crunchy heads.  Any land snails I accidentally step on get frozen to put them out of their misery, and then cooked, with as much of the shell removed (or it's like bits of crunchy eggshell).  

I save my most predatory Entomophagy for invasive species like Japanese beetle larvae...and especially "Asian Crazy / Jumping Worms," which have become a sudden plague at my place.  Any worms I accidentally dig up go into a cup with shallow water, especially the scary squirming ones.  A lid with a one-inch hole in its center allows them to be dropped in but keeps them from getting out. Once I'm ready to cook, the ones that have tried to crawl out are the enemy.  The trick is to try to rinse them and avoid bits of dirt in my food.  The sluggish worms can be returned to a shady, moist spot - they may also be non-native, but they are nothing like the multiflora rose / shrub honeysuckle / callery pear of invertebrates.