Hey all, I've not been doing great for a while and need help to get my life back in order and move out of this place.
If you can spare anything to help a disabled artist get on their feet, I'd sincerely appreciate any help and shares you can give.
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@2ears2wheels@1goodtern I've always wondered who would pretend to be ill for attention seeking. It's not like it's working, is it? You lose friends, not win them over by being ill. It's bloody lonely to be ill.
I would give anything to move forward.
As someone who has also had two cancer diagnoses, I've seen people become so consumed by an illness that it takes over their entire identity. That happens. It exists in every illness community.
But for once, I wish people making posts like this would approach the conversation in a way that actually helps us.
Everyone is eager to point out the fallacies, the maladaptive behaviors, the ways some patients get stuck. Yet very few people are willing to stand up and address the reality that millions of us still have nothing. No proven treatment. No cure. No meaningful symptom management. No adequate social services. Often not even genuine acknowledgment of what we're living with.
So congratulations, I guess. You've identified something that was never really hidden. Every patient community contains people who struggle to move forward, especially when they're trapped in circumstances they cannot control.
But these kinds of posts don't move the conversation forward. They give people permission to feel as though they've found the problem, while continuing to ignore the larger crisis. Instead of helping patients who have been left without answers, they become another reason to dismiss us.
And in the end, that's what makes them so frustrating. The spotlight gets turned toward the patients' response to suffering rather than the suffering itself.
@1goodtern@GosiaGasperoPhD Problem is, they only seem to be able to admit their mistakes once they leave the WHO…
…and, of course, the same folks are largely *still* at the helm…
if you make art, you have to aggressively not give a single shit what your audience thinks about you or your art. I know it feels like it should be the opposite, but the more you care about their opinions the worse your art will get and the more they will hate and harass you