Today is Michaelmas Day - a day of “uncanny power” - when, according to Welsh folklore: “the Cistfaens, or warriors’ graves... were illuminated by spectral lights, and it was very unlucky to walk near those places for the ghosts of ancient warriors were engaged in deadly fray.”
"We need to ask why so many patients have been abandoned, why discredited and dangerous treatments continue to be prescribed and why ignorance and neglect still dominate.. there has seldom been a stronger case for a public inquiry."
#pwme#me
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If you have the extreme misfortune of becoming chronically ill, then know that ‘online’ can be one of the very few places empathy and understanding exist.
It isn’t simply sharing ‘identity’; it’s providing a basic support network that doesn’t exist elsewhere.
Chronic illness rips everything from a person that is normally identity-your occupation, hobbies, values and even the simplest acts of self-expression.
Framing chronic illness as an ‘identity’ is not only deeply callous, it is fundamentally backwards.
#ChronicIllness
What is often overlooked is how the tobacco industry secretly funded psychosomatic researchers to hype the idea of a 'cancer-prone personality.'
Not just Hans Eysenck but also Kissen, Bahnson, Blohmke, Baltrusch and others. We wrote about it here:
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