About my work

From pain to inspiration

For many years I've been exploited (pic1) by my employer. I didn't receive credit for my work, on the contrary, it was another who took credit for all my hard work. This made me so frustrated and disappointed, but I never did something about it. After a while I started to feel tired all the time and the stress was killing me. In 2006 I had a burnout (pic2), since then it went from bad to worse. Nevertheless I continued working but it wasn't the same anymore. I started to have several aches and I was feeling exhausted all the time. End 2009 I was at the end of my rope, my doctor put me on sick leave and send me to the hospital, after several tests they diagnosed me with chronic fatigue syndrome (pic4). Apparently it's a combination of stress and pain that caused this fatigue. For more than 30 years I'm suffering from clusterheadache (pic3), bruxism, oedema in the right ankle... According to the doctors my body's telling me it's had enough. I'm still in treatment, CFS rehabilitation centre, group therapy (pic5), individual therapy... but so far no significant result, it feels like a dead end (pic6). But I'm not giving up yet!!

All that gave me the inspiration to create this.

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