Out Today - New edn of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ with contributions from 12 contemporary writers
My essay on #LongCovid is alongside essays on depression, migraine, endometriosis, the fantasy of the cure & more + poetry on psychosis and anxiety
Buy https://t.co/E6gxbBtPYc
Out Today - New edn of Virginia Woolf’s ‘On Being Ill’ with contributions from 12 contemporary writers
My essay on #LongCovid is alongside essays on depression, migraine, endometriosis, the fantasy of the cure & more + poetry on psychosis and anxiety
Buy https://t.co/E6gxbBtPYc
This is the dumbest article. There’s no conspiracy against mind-body techniques, most long covid patients have tried them. Meditation helped me a bit. It’s just that we want research $ going towards a CURE, not wasted on things we expect, from experience, to have small effect.
It's undeniable that many people who believe they have (or have been diagnosed with) LC see benefits from "mind-body" approaches, and that should be discussed.
However, below I'll transcribe a reply to the article that I think is the main flaw in coverage like this.
@julia_doubleday@atranscendedman And this is exactly what I pointed out in the comments. As well as the fact that listening to the mind-body types when I was desperately casting around for answers in the initial months of illness made me go from mild to bedbound. Thanks, guys!
"The convict and the convalescent have much in common with the poet: dislodged from the normal patterns of time and space, concentrated physically in one room with a need for imaginative escape"
An essay about #chronicillness and reverie
https://t.co/gfyJrAg7Bl
#ME#LongCovid
“He was indeed looking up at the stars, there’s no doubt about that––but he was also indubitably in the gutter. Wilde’s celebrated bon mot insists that some of those who are in the gutter are nonetheless looking up at the stars. Yet perhaps the formula ought properly to be reversed: some of us who are looking at the stars are in the gutter.”
Wonderful day for a new #LongCOVID paper! Thanks to an incredible collaboration with @VirusesImmunity and brilliant work done by @keylas3, we studied the effects of injecting antibodies taken from people with LC into mice compared with what happened
https://t.co/uotWM9LUEG
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"The convict and the convalescent have much in common with the poet: dislodged from the normal patterns of time and space, concentrated physically in one room with a need for imaginative escape"
An essay about #chronicillness and reverie
https://t.co/gfyJrAg7Bl
#ME#LongCovid
@BDSixsmith@serenelyjoyful I’ve written an article on Long Covid and Waiting for Godot that I’m looking to find a home for. Might The Critic be interested?!