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“Survival isn’t a straight line, it’s messy. The body’s on strike, the mind doesn’t know if it’s losing or winning, and you’re stuck in the middle just trying to make sense of it. They say healing is supposed to be linear but it’s not, it’s chaos and contradictions, like trying to solve a math problem when half the numbers are missing. And still inside that disorder there’s a strange clarity, because the real victory isn’t beating the illness, it’s showing up anyway, it’s laughing when nothing feels funny, it’s finding love in the moments that don’t add up. I don’t know if I’m really getting better, maybe that’s the point, maybe it’s not about better or worse at all, maybe it’s just about showing up in the middle of the chaos and realizing that’s kind of beautiful too.” — Jonathan Harnisch