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Chronic Illness

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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

  1. Be excellent to each other

  2. Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc

  3. 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.

  4. No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.

  5. 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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Be funny If I could weaponize it and share with people that actually deserve it 🙊🙉🙈.

I feel the same way. I have ME/CFS. I’ve lost the ability to speak, I’m permanently bedridden, I’m tubefed, I’ve lost everything in life.

And still some c*nts have the audacity to say “you’re probably just anxious”, “I wish I could spend all day in bed like you”, “you need to start trying to get better” etc.

If I could send them just one day of living with my illness ahahha. They would cry. The shit I deal with on a daily basis would have sent me to the ER 5 times over before I became disabled.