Chronic Illness
331 readers
3 users here now
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.
Rules
-
Be excellent to each other
-
Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
-
No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
-
No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
-
No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
Did your post/comment get removed? Before arguing with moderators consider that the goal of this community is to provide a safe space for people suffering from chronic illness. Moderation may be heavy handed at times. If you don’t like that, find or create another community that prioritises something else.
founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
1
2
3
4
In this thread you can vent, celebrate, both, or anything else and I'll root for you n_n
There are no small victories and very few definitive defeats \o
7
8
ID:
"Me: *stands up really fast*
My entire body:"
Bellow are 12 different engine warning lights that you would have on a car dashboard.
10
11
38
I see her every 2-3 weeks at the moment. I only mentioned the symptoms* that I know can be related to the disease I'm seeing her for. They apparently shouldn't be near as bad, according to the results of my blood test (she usually calls me a few hours to a day after the appointment to tell me the results). So now I have yet another health issue to figure out, yay!
Anyone willing to bet whether I'll be diagnosed as 'stressed' or 'skinny young woman' this time? Those were my diagnoses plenty of times when I described those symptoms. I'm not even a woman, so it comes with a little side dish of dysphoria.
*Light headedness and fainting to the point I don't feel safe standing too long (though walking is fine), extreme night sweats, very high heart rate and very low blood pressure
12
ID: photo of a framed embroidery of 7 different knives and switchblades each in a colour of the rainbow, at the top it says "no spoons left" and bellow "only knives"
13
14
ID: image from Legally Blonde of a depressed Elle in bed eating chocolates, angry at what she's seeing on tv, on it is pink text: "my body hurts and I'm mad about capitalism"
15
A white background with an all black icon of a person with eyes closed, crying, and holding their right hand to the face. The caption reads:
I am chronically ill
daily I take pills
to keep climbing the hill
while engaging my skills
to help you get your fill
while I shitpost for thrills
17
18
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5022911
Based on user suggestions, an attempt at rebranding
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfs by /u/Covidivici on 2025-01-27 05:32:13+00:00.
19
20
21
22
42
Too Sick to Work but Too Healthy for Help - How Disability and Poverty Go Hand-in-Hand
(dawnlevitt.substack.com)
23
24
25
109
The grief is hard, but easier than clinging onto unrealistic hope and living a life of disappointment.
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
view more: next ›