Chronic Illness
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
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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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.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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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”.
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We have so much uncounted homelessness. The government throws homeless people in warehouses that are super dangerous and where people literally starve, but then they can hide the problem from the population and make the statistics look good.
I mean the numbers seem relatively low but they can lie quite a lot.
Sounds nasty. I want to look into that a little.
Here it's just the housing first so even drunks and junkies have apartments. Like if you really have a huge drug issue and end up not even applying for benefits or drinking all your rent money and some of that is paid directly to your landlord from the benefits people so it's kinda hard to get so behind in rent that you actually get evicted.
But this causes problem imo because there's just tons of bureaucratic "traps" sort of keeping people in these situations.