Abby Dearden

27 🌸 mid quarter-life crisis ✨

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

OF COURSE you are part of the “it’s all in your head” crowd of lazy “doctors” who come to this conclusion out of pure laziness and refusal to investigate issues in women. You simply don’t want to admit that you do not know what is wrong with a patient so it must be psychological.

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

There's a glaring double standard: People are willing to accept that mindfulness can reduce pain, improve fatigue and even regulate inflammation. But the moment you suggest that the same mind-body connection can cause pain, fatigue and disability it's offensive, even cruel.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

I hypothesise that you are a quack who should be in a different field. More at 6.

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

If you test enough cytokines, metabolites, immune markers, brain regions, and microbiome patterns, something will eventually separate patients from healthy controls, especially when the patients are chronically unwell, inactive, sleep-deprived, medicated, anxious, or depressed. That is not the same as discovering a disease mechanism. Serious science begins with a hypothesis. You propose a mechanism, derive predictions from it, and then test whether reality behaves as your theory says it should. With these syndromes, the process seems reversed. The field accumulates abnormalities first and builds explanations around them later.

The plot thickens further when one notices that many of these biological findings are compared against healthy controls, not against the patients they most need to distinguish themselves from: people with depression, chronic anxiety, chronic stress, sleep disorders, pain syndromes, inactivity, or years of psychiatric medication exposure. Nor can these labels be cleanly distinguished from each other.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

Doctors like this sicken me. Have you considered that maybe people have to explain their limitations because society does not understand the severity of chronic illness at all and doctors such as yourself are not actually treating or helping us.

[Hannah Spier, MD @hannahspierMD]

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.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

First it was @Tesco with their salmon sushi (the new one is TRASH compared to the old one) and now @walkers_crisps. My perfect meal deal has been DESTROYED

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

Can’t believe that @walkers_crisps discontinued Prawn Cocktail Quavers but kept the Red Leicester ones that are almost exactly the same as the original - they are both cheese flavour! At least the Prawn Cocktail had some character. They were my go-to snack and now I’m depressed.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

Woman

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@ChoralSymphony @fofo475 If you are born with egg-producing equipment, even if faulty, it's proof you are a woman.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

@Sean_K_Davis @hazz3000 @TRobinsonNewEra I’ve travelled to much hotter countries and yet the heat in the Uk is far worse because we aren’t prepared for it. You’re dumb if you think that doesn’t make a difference.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

@Sean_K_Davis @hazz3000 @TRobinsonNewEra The humidity has been 90% for the past week. No rain. Not really much sun just thick oppressive clouds. No breeze. It’s also 30+. So not really that different to you. Except our country has no air con even in most stores + our houses were designed to trap in heat.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

@reruther @TRobinsonNewEra The humidity is 85%. It’s 30 degrees. In a country with no air con and houses designed to keep heat in

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

Not gonna, but totally could’ve topped myself by then :)

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

I find it slightly concerning that I tried to book a doctors appointment to change my antidepressants and they asked me the screening questions like “do you feel that life is not worth living” and I answered yes and the soonest appointment they could offer me was in 2 weeks.

[Alice Vinten @AVintenAuthor]

18yr old woman stabs man once in the chest whilst he is violently trying to rape her

MURDER - 17 years

29 yr old man stabs woman 17 times in an attack described as ‘brutal and frenzied’ because she didn’t want to see him anymore.

GBH - 12 years.

Make this make sense?

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

@LindaFoods do you still make oat milk? It’s my favourite oat milk ever and I haven’t been able to find it anywhere for years :(

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.

A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am disgusted by the government’s relentless demonisation of disabled people.

All so they can protect the wealthiest from paying their fair share.

Instead of targeting the most vulnerable, let’s “crack down” on corporations and billionaires evading tax instead.

[Adam Heywood @JustAdaaam]

It's crazy how people are crying over £311 given to people who need it and not about the millionaires and billionaires in the UK who refuse to pay their fair share of tax. Should thank Labour for continuing the Conservatives narrative of scapegoating the weak and poor AGAIN.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

Wish I could reply directly but it seems you are the type of person to just shove your fingers in your ears when somebody offers a different opinion. Except oh wait, it’s not an opinion, it’s fact. Vaccines save lives.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

The antivax covid conspiracy theorists have clearly got too much time on their hands. We get it, you read the daily mail. Fucking brainless.

[Abby Dearden @DenchAbs]

I have no respect for people who don’t vaccinate. If it were only your own health you were putting at risk, I literally would not care less. But it isn’t. Babies, young children, immunocompromised adults with cancer are all at risk because of your stupidity.