Even though crohns disease and ulcerative colitis are invisible illnesses, there are very REAL parts of it that make these diseases visible in many ways. I spoke about body image and how it relates to IBD in this post here http://keepingthingsinsideisbadformyhealth.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/body-image-and-ibd/. I promised to expand on this a bit with a couple pictures. This picture […]
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Body Image and IBD
When a person suffers from moderate-severe inflammatory bowel disease, there is a very real possibility that they are going to suffer from some type of body image issue. I am not saying that everyone diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and crohns disease aren’t confident, well adjusted people because that couldn’t be farther from the truth. But, […]