CRPS awareness

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JJ Ritter Ritter
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Kraaifontein
South Africa
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Started a yr ago
Open end-date

In 2021, my life changed forever when I was diagnosed with this rare, excruciating neurological condition, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), often referred to as the “Suicide Disease” because of the relentless, unyielding pain it causes.

For months, I felt isolated, misunderstood, and defeated. But somewhere in the middle of the chaos, I picked up a pen and started writing — not to escape the pain, but to give it a voice. That voice became a memoir: Hope Undivided – Memoirs of an Ordinary Man Living with a Not So Ordinary Disease. A raw, brutally honest account of what it’s like to lose the life you knew, and still find reasons to get up, love fiercely, and hope anyway.

This campaign isn’t just about me. It is about getting this book into the world — not for fame, but for purpose. For awareness. For the countless others living in silence with CRPS or other invisible illnesses. For the spouses, parents, and children who walk this road...

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Campaign Updates

J. Ritter 17 Jul '25
I See you, I feel you, I hear you…HOPE Undivided

J. Ritter 17 Jul '25
We often forget that being a warrior is not defined by the good days, but by how you face those bad days when pain and life becomes too much, and by the realisation that it is okay not to be okay, to...

J. Ritter 13 Jun '25
Every day is a step forward

J. Ritter 19 May '25
Thank you to all that have supported our cause thus far, and especially those that have contributed so far: Matthew Tara Monique Zeelie Gesin Johannes Leibold Anke Conrad Anony...
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