What Makes You Stronger

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- 7 minutes | English | Australia

Inspired by writer/producers real life journey with ME/CFS.
Bed ridden. Immobile. Gemma has spent the last 5 years isolated and exhausted by her Chronic Fatigue. Her doctor has now put her on the latest medical trial which uncovers something deeper and darker.
What Makes You Stronger is a deeply personal work, written from Jessica’s own personal experiences of 20 years of living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) and Fibromyalgia. The pain, the anger, the heartbreak, the trauma – it has all been fed into this film.
And while Gemma’s particular illness is Chronic Fatigue, What Makes You Stronger look at how each and every person has trauma and if we allow this trauma to define who we are. It can consume us.