TD and Lyme are nasty

I haven’t been able to smile in about 6 years. My face is disfigured essentially, even though just to look at it you might not know. But not being able to smile is a disfigurement.

When you can’t smile, there are oodles of things you cannot communicate. And people don’t like you. That’s the biggest thing I’ve learned. People do not like you if you cannot smile. And they don’t know why they just don’t.

I think it’s that people cannot trust someone who does not smile. I’m not used to this level of rejection. Even 6 years in it’s painful.

I smiled liberally easily and often before this disfigurement took over. Lyme disease and tardive dyskinesia are nasty.

That’s all I’ve got today. Life is hard and I sometimes can only deeply acknowledge that reality with all of us who are coming back from pharmaceutical injuries.

• Tardive Dyskinesia
• Lyme disease / systemic infections
• Medically induced illness: iatrogenic injury

and

• Chronic illness, pharmaceutical injury
• Traumatic brain injury/psych drug brain injury — very similar

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