Abrin
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I encountered this article today on how to deal with the 'ambiguous loss' that healthy people have been encountering because of the pandemic and it truly caught me by complete surprise that the advice that the article gives is essential the same advice that I've received through the years through ME/CFS forums.
https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c
It is so strange to imagine an entire society struggling to deal with a type of grief that people with ME/CFS have had to have dealt with their entire lives. But, we had to deal with it while being told at the same time by society that we weren't trying hard enough.
Maybe a subset of healthy people will finally understand how hurtful it has been when they used to tell us that, "It must be nice to be able to stay at home all day."
They now get to experience how 'nice' it is to be cut off from the rest of the outside world.
https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c
It is so strange to imagine an entire society struggling to deal with a type of grief that people with ME/CFS have had to have dealt with their entire lives. But, we had to deal with it while being told at the same time by society that we weren't trying hard enough.
Maybe a subset of healthy people will finally understand how hurtful it has been when they used to tell us that, "It must be nice to be able to stay at home all day."
They now get to experience how 'nice' it is to be cut off from the rest of the outside world.