u/The_Good_Guy_Two

Hey everyone 26(m)

I don't really know where to start, but the beginning seems appropriate, I've was diagnosed with fibro for about 5-ish years ago now, I felt it much earlier than that however, after two years of finding out "wtf is wrong with me?" to every doctor known to man, ya know typical shit so I feel like I've had this condition I feel 7-ish years.

Now to the title, I might lose everything because of my fibro, and I mean that in a more sentimental sense, as I've got these long-term firends who has supported me through this, but I never have got the energy to give back to them, I feel like I'm simply going to be replaced just because no one wants a burden. This isn't fear, one of them has already left the tiro group and plays with other people that give her alot of attention and energy.

furthermore, I have a girlfirend who is amazing and I've been with for over 13 years, I'm super lucky but due to fibro I can only muster the energy for so long and then I crash and then I feel selfish for taking time to myself to recover. I've divided my time to either my good friends or my great gf and work, so I pretty much have no time to myself to recover in any sense of the way.

I've talked to them about this and they just say "well I have anxity etc etc" "if I can do this/done this so can you, etc" and they never really heard me I could never really get across to anyone how much this condtion slows you down, hurts and demoralises you. People really don't understand how tired you constantly feel, and how you still have to show up even though you feel like dying inside.

So my question is how do you stop people from leaving you? and If that's not an option, how do you accept that they will just leave you for someone that can keep up with them?