06/12/2025
MORGAN FREEMAN is this mornings spotlight 💡 feature. He is a well renowned actor and voice.
FREEMAN has fibromyalgia, a chronic condition causing widespread pain, fatigue, which he developed after a severe car accident in 2008. The accident left his left hand paralyzed and caused excruciating pain, and he wears a compression glove to help manage the discomfort and swelling. The accident, which involved his car flipping multiple times, resulted in nerve damage that led to his fibromyalgia diagnosis
Since 2008 he has continued his career despite living with the ” … excruciating” pain of fibromyalgia.
FREEMAN has received Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. FREEMAN has stared in sharkshank redemption, driving miss daisy, invictcus, my personal favourite " lean on me" and many others movies to date.
FREEMAN like many living with chronic illness seldom shows his pain, often covers up his agony, by “acting” to hide his pain. However admits that there are times he just can’t cover up what he is feeling.
FREEMAN has choosen to view the impact specifically of fibromyalgia as " not a loss, but as a change in his life"
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterised by widespread pain and tenderness throughout the body, often accompanied by fatigue, sleep problems, and cognitive difficulties like "fibro fog". There is no known cure, but symptoms can be managed through a combination of treatments such as medications, lifestyle changes. Fibromyalgia is a poorly understood, chronically disabling pain syndrome as there is still little research.
Research that i have sourced state racial disparities in fibromyalgia among Black individuals, including potentially higher symptom identification but lower official diagnoses compared to White individuals. With greater number of women diagnosed and fewer men. FREEDOM attitude to his diagnosis reinforced the importance of mindset and that amongst the challenges we can still choose how we want to live our life.
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