Porochista khakpour sick a memoir5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() After years of chronic pain and countless emergency room visits, Khakpour is told by a nurse, point blank, “Nothing is wrong with you physically, you need to understand that.” Eventually, she begins to believe it.įainting felt, just as Khakpour writes, “like the life force was being vacuumed out of me, from every orifice.” ![]() Her slow trudge toward a diagnosis is a source of trauma in itself. She has survived sexual and domestic assault, which she describes in her memoir with the type of nonchalant restraint that is born out of trauma’s normalization. Khakpour’s mental and physical wellbeing are inexorably tied together-she notes that her flare-ups coincide with external political stressors, like the Paris attacks or Donald Trump’s election and his “Muslim ban” executive order. ![]()
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