One thing I have noticed about patients with diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and increasingly Long COVID is how often the conversation revolves around explaining why they cannot move forward.
There’s an extraordinary effort devoted to protecting the illness narrative.
@WIRED "Hi, Hello. I sell expensive unproven pseudoscience classes to fix a real medical issue. My thoughts on LC/ME CFS...hmmm...tricky. You should probably take an expensive, unproven pseudoscience class about it. Oh! What a coincidence!"
@AlanLevinovitz@MeganTStevenson Alan, you'd be less of a disgusting turd if you didn't wrap your condescension in dopey, Oprah guest, angel-collecting auntie, new age hope lingo & just openly owned that hardcore eugenics with a sprinkling of mysticism is the beating heart of your worldview. Like Hitler.
Francesca Scorsese pounding at Martin Scorsese's door as he spends hours watching those videos where a grapefruit gets cucked by a strawberry or whatever