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Group Card to Women's Equality Party in thanks for their position on MUS

lilpink

Senior Member
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The Women's Equality Party has come out out against MUS as a mental health condition in their Manifesto that was launched on 12th May -

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...3495_Manifesto_2017_V4_Singles.pdf?1494600051

" "“Medically unexplained symptoms” or “MUS” should not be regarded as a mental health condition or problem"

This GroupCard expresses these thanks:
""Many thanks for stating in your Manifesto that 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS) should not be regarded as a mental health condition. Of c. 250k UK patients with ME/CFS, about 3/4 are women. May 12 was International ME Awareness Day. WHO defines it as neurological, not MUS or biopsychosocial."

Please consider signing this card of thanks. If you are able to add an example (limited characters willing) of how this made-up diagnosis has harmed you or a member of your family then please do.


http://www.groupcard.com/c/QACkpQAJPMw/Thank-You-Card-for-Women039s-Equality-Party
 

Jo Best

Senior Member
Messages
1,032
Thanks @lilpink :thumbsup:

I really like that the slogan / hashtag for the Women's Equality Party Manisfesto is #NickablePolicies so the fact that they've included the problem of MUS and inequality for men and women in health and medical research is particularly helpful, in that they want the other parties to take on their ideas or adopt their policies. This page has a video of them delivering their manifesto to the offices of the other political parties:
http://www.womensequality.org.uk/manifesto

"There are many different examples of gender
inequalities in health care. Men are less likely to seek
medical help and their life expectancy is shorter,
which many researchers have attributed to toxic
masculinity. Women’s symptoms and pain are too
often disbelieved and are treated less effectively.
Women are more likely than men to be told their
symptoms are psychosomatic, to be dismissed
without further investigation, and even to be
given sedatives rather than adequate pain relief."
p. 25 https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...3495_Manifesto_2017_V4_Singles.pdf?1494600051
“Medically unexplained symptoms” or “MUS” should not be
regarded as a mental health condition or problem;"
p. 26 https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...3495_Manifesto_2017_V4_Singles.pdf?1494600051
 
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