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So why did I get ill and why have I remained ill, here 1km from the nearest road and neighbour, in the middle of ancient, organically managed pasture land, eating home cooked, unprocessed food, taking probiotics and fish oils? I'm sure it wasn't an Orgone blockage.some people are not likely candidates for homeopathic treatment especially those who have damaged the healing abilities of their bodies with pharmaceuticals, other substances, and above all a diet which prevents it from happening
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is classified in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) at T78.4 (Allergy, Unspecified). I believe that is binding for all WHO member states, including the UK? Thought that the problem is rather that most countries only follow these codes on paper and no one cares what happens in real life? But I'm no expert on ICD stuff.MCS is not classified as a physical disease in the UK.
My body got lots of good stuff like meditation and Yoga (when it was still possible) and still I'm only getting sicker. I'm already blamed by everyone else and this forum should be a safe haven from "victim blaming". I'd love to go on holidays what I couldn't do in over 10 years and it hurts to read that I'm just doing something wrong. I believe you were really, really lucky. Yesterday was a video conference before the screening of Unrest and another pwme told us how she made everything right from getting an early diagnosis to eating only organic and she still didn't get better in 30 years. I believe this is just the way ME is and not something we do or don't do.But yes I am loads better from being severe to functioning well, moving house going abroad for holiday etc.
I mean it is common sense that the body needs conditions in order to heal.
So why did I get ill and why have I remained ill, here 1km from the nearest road and neighbour, in the middle of ancient, organically managed pasture land, eating home cooked, unprocessed food, taking probiotics and fish oils? I'm sure it wasn't an Orgone blockage.
I believe you were really, really lucky.
I'm already blamed by everyone else and this forum should be a safe haven from "victim blaming".
Proponents and aides for the pharmaceutical companies hate homeopathy more than anything. Because it works. .
Even if someone has damaged their system they can repair it.
Identified all my minor food intolerances and cut them out within the first 6months of ME. Still ill.Don't ask me. Have a look at the fish oil and probiotics. You could have a leaky gut and intolerance to a common food.
I am not commintted to homeopathy and would not rely on it for serious illness like cancer though might use some remedies for various symptoms.. I believe in using a variety of natural means to get the body to heal itself which it wants to do.
Let me tell you why I hate homeopathy. Just over ten years ago I was on a graduate scheme which involved a lot of travel. My colleague who I was on the road with received some bad news: her best friend from home had been diagnosed with a fairly aggressive cancer. While we were travelling from place to place I had to listen to my colleague beg her friend to follow her oncologist's advice. But her friend had seen a homeopath, who had come out with vicously irresponsible advice about 'natural' remedies, how chemotherapy was just big pharma's way of keeping you ill, how these companies had known how to cure cancer for years but held it back because there was no profit in it. About a year later her friend died, having only changed her mind to try chemotherapy at the last minute. I don't know if the outcome would have been different had she not tried the 'natural' approach, but I do know that the homeopath who sold her this anti-medicine crap is, frankly, a scumbag.
This is not an isolated case: how about homeopaths putthing children at risk by advising their parents to avoid travel immunisations.
You are right Skycloud, it is victim blaming. My mother has ME, my daughter has ME. None of us are to blame for not getting better.Saying something as sweeping as this is, akin to victim blaming, even if that is not the intention.
Take it like that if you want. Even if someone has damaged their system they can repair it. It takes a long time imo to work out what is wrong and put it right and it is easy to give up before you get there.
I think it's very sad that you are blaming yourself for ill health @brenda. It's not your fault. If everyone who had a bad experience got ill because of it then every living person would be ill because nobody lives a charmed life.
Think about the last two world wars, they touched almost everyone alive at the time in some way, nobody would have been well enough to make and raise new people if emotional pain caused illness.
There is always pain, there is always trauma, life is a battle for almost every living thing.
It is a myth that sadness causes illness. You don't deserve ill health because of past behaviour. You haven't brought it on yourself or had it brought upon you by anyone else's past behaviour.
Genetics has just dealt us, you, me and everyone on this forum a shitty hand.