The Sickness Game
4 min readMar 20, 2024
The perks of taking on the sick role
Alice walked in to the counselling room. She threw herself on to the cushy armchair and lamented “I am so tired. Looking after my mother is taking a toll on my health. In the past month, I have lost 2 kilograms. My clothes fit loosely now. I sleep only 7 hours a night and I have developed many more wrinkles of which I have no time to visit the dermatologist to botox away. Truly, I am wasting…
