Control is an Illusion

And yet, it's still hard to loosen the grip on it.

Since childhood, I’ve experienced unwelcome and often unpredictable fainting episodes. From a young age, they set me up with something that was incredibly terrifying to me and something not within my control.

Admittedly, I wasn’t great at not having control over this or other things that weren’t within my control, and I grasped to control other parts of …