Having an illness that totally changes your everyday life is often pretty harsh. In my case, I got two at the same time, both triggered by the extreme stress I was going through while serving in the military in 2015. The physical illness has toned down now, a year after diagnosis, and I have found the limits of what I can do. The mental illness, which was discovered a bit later, is kind of a by-product of the physical illness. I was unconsciously trying to (over)compensate for the damage the other illness was doing in my body, but the overcompensation didn't stop when I started getting treatment for it.
The overcompensation became a bad habi