Chronically Illing Out

Welcome to Ch-Illing Out with Nick Paro, Beth Cruz, Soso, and Steph Wilson where we take time to focus on living with chronic illnesses. This is a community where chronic conditions are seen, heard, and valued. sickofthis.substack.com

Chronically Illing Out is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #33

  Chronically Illing Out | E33 - Bridging the Gaps, Unifying the Communities

  Jun 1, 20261h 15mS1

  <p>Chronic Illness In Review</p><p>This week’s Chronically Illing Out lands on an uncomfortable truth: the disability community is fracturing itself from the inside. Nick Paro opens by naming the divisions playing out on Substack right now — people attacking each other, misrepresenting each other — and frames the whole hour around a single question: how do we bridge the gaps within our own ranks before we lose the ability to fight anything else? Guest Nieta Greene, CEO and founder of Disability Community for Democracy, arrives with the credentials to push the conversation past venting and into accountability. What follow...

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  Episode #32

  Chronically Illing Out | E32 - Get Out The Guilt

  May 19, 20261 hourS1

  <p>Chronic Illness In Review</p><p>Dr. Greeley Miklashek is 80, recovering from long COVID and a second round of prostate-cancer radiation, and unwilling to apologize for any of it. He’s also a retired neuropsychiatrist who treated 25,000 people, wrote Stress R Us, and spent a career arguing that what most of his colleagues called “disease” was, more often than not, a body trying to survive chronic stress. In a wandering, generous hour, he gives Soso, Beth, and Nick a working definition of guilt — self-punishment for breaking the rules of a group — and then complicates it by pointing out that most of us...

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  Episode #31

  Chronically Illing Out | E31 - Mother's Day Monday

  May 15, 20261h 11mS1

  <p>Chronic Illness In Review</p><p>The Monday after Mother’s Day begins with a head cold, a missing co-host, and a discussion on grief. Beth is out sick — appropriately, on a show about chronic illness — so Nick Paro, Soso, and Stephanie Wilson, PhD, hold the morning between them. The heart of today’s show is all about the chronically ill body keeping track of loss whether the dishes are done or not, and it’s important to say that out loud. Mother’s Day gives us the conversation opener into some unexpected tangents where we talk surveillance capitalism, isolation wi...

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  Episode #30

  Chronically Illing Out | E30 - Functioning With Compounding Conditions

  May 5, 20261h 7mS1

  <p>Chronic Illness In Review</p><p>This week’s discussion pulls a single thread — what does it actually take to function when your diagnoses keep stacking? Mack Devlin, a former journalist now medically retired, joins Nick, Beth, Soso, and Stephanie with one of the most compounding stacks the show has hosted: Becker’s muscular dystrophy, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 LADA diabetes, hypertension, depression, AFib, and chimerism — the rare condition where Mack absorbed his twin in utero and inherited a second set of genes. The conversation traces how someone twice told he should already be dead arrives at 46 with a non-profit in the w...

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  Episode #29

  Chronically Illing Out | E29 - Writing With Autism

  Apr 30, 20261h 15mS1

  <p>Chronic Illness In Review</p><p>This week’s panel takes the long way around to a simple idea — that the labels we use to sort each other are, at best, a starting place, and that the most interesting parts of a person tend to live just past where the label stops. Nick, Beth, Soso, and Steph sit with guest Stefan Pasek — a Polish-born writer in Minnesota with PDD-NOS — and let the conversation move from “normal versus abnormal” to “common versus less common” to whether bucketing humans does any of us any favors. By the time Stefan starts explaining how he writes, t...

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