An interesting blog by Illustrator Interrupted:
https://illustratorinterrupted.blogspot.com/2021/05/i-caught-virus-and-never-recovered-part.html
Excerpt:
https://illustratorinterrupted.blogspot.com/2021/05/i-caught-virus-and-never-recovered-part.html
Excerpt:
Illustrator Interrupted said:
It has been almost eight years since I caught a virus and never recovered, and I completely empathise with this growing group of COVID-19 “Long Haulers”.
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Throughout history, women have not been believed to be reliable witnesses of their own bodies. This still happens today each time a doctor minimises or psychologises a woman’s health by not believing her lived experience.
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Currently, men get twice as much funding for diseases that mostly affect men.
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The wrongful redefining Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a “Fatigue Syndrome” was a deliberate intention to trivialise and dilute diagnostic criteria to focus solely on the vague and unmeasurable symptom “fatigue”.
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Contributing to the evaporation of ME as a distinct disease, was the malignant movement by a group of influential professors in the UK. Principally among them are Professor Michael Sharpe and Sir Simon Wessely, both psychiatrists with links to the global insurance industry and close ties with UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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What other reason would Wessely change an internationally classified neurological disease, to a mental health illness, if it weren’t to further his own, and the insurance industry’s agenda?
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The way they trumpet their pseudoscience nonsense every time biomedical research studies for ME reach mainstream headlines, is a pathetic and desperate attempt to cling onto their last strand of credibility.
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Why are psychiatrists still given a voice when Long COVID and ME/CFS are physical conditions?
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Government health departments “worldwide” need to take responsibility for this massive injustice that has left ME patients without treatments, thus afflicting them with the poorest quality of life than most major diseases (some of which aren’t nearly as common). There are millions of us suffering year after year, decade after decade with no end in sight. And it looks as though ten million more are about to join us if this neglect continues.
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If a doctor tells you that your physically debilitating symptoms are due to being overly anxious about your health, please seek another opinion. You know your body and mental state better than they do.
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Throughout history, women have not been believed to be reliable witnesses of their own bodies. This still happens today each time a doctor minimises or psychologises a woman’s health by not believing her lived experience.
[...]
Currently, men get twice as much funding for diseases that mostly affect men.
[...]
The wrongful redefining Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a “Fatigue Syndrome” was a deliberate intention to trivialise and dilute diagnostic criteria to focus solely on the vague and unmeasurable symptom “fatigue”.
[...]
Contributing to the evaporation of ME as a distinct disease, was the malignant movement by a group of influential professors in the UK. Principally among them are Professor Michael Sharpe and Sir Simon Wessely, both psychiatrists with links to the global insurance industry and close ties with UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
[...]
What other reason would Wessely change an internationally classified neurological disease, to a mental health illness, if it weren’t to further his own, and the insurance industry’s agenda?
[...]
The way they trumpet their pseudoscience nonsense every time biomedical research studies for ME reach mainstream headlines, is a pathetic and desperate attempt to cling onto their last strand of credibility.
[...]
Why are psychiatrists still given a voice when Long COVID and ME/CFS are physical conditions?
[...]
Government health departments “worldwide” need to take responsibility for this massive injustice that has left ME patients without treatments, thus afflicting them with the poorest quality of life than most major diseases (some of which aren’t nearly as common). There are millions of us suffering year after year, decade after decade with no end in sight. And it looks as though ten million more are about to join us if this neglect continues.
[...]
If a doctor tells you that your physically debilitating symptoms are due to being overly anxious about your health, please seek another opinion. You know your body and mental state better than they do.