if you're exhausted, have symptoms that wont go away for months, it gets worse every time you get sick and you start getting sick more often. theres only one way to close the cycle and try to get better, i just hope people can make that decision before they're bedbound like me
We gotta wake this up I’m tired of bitches being like “oh I’m exhausted all the time and my entire body aches and I can’t remember anything I guess this is just what happens when you’re 30” YOU BITCHES HAVE LONG COVID PUT THE MASK ON
people who think long covid is psychosocial / psychosomatic have such a grave misunderstanding of post-acute sequelae. my long covid was visible, measurable lung and blood vessel damage. you think i anxietied my way into that, and meditated my way out of it? fucking no lol
I’m at the oil shock. I’m at the super El Niño. I’m at the combination oil shock super El Niño fertilizer shortages imminent famines historic droughts over half our oxygen lost to ocean acidification AMOC collapse portending a southeastern USA heat dome + Western Europe ice age
The AMOC has reliably transported heat from the equator to the North Atlantic for the past 12,000 years, and sporadically for a lot longer than that. It’s the reason Europe is warmer than its latitude would suggest. Its collapse would be an irreversible ramping up of planetary climate chaos—a paradoxical deep freeze on a warming planet, with New England and especially Europe getting much colder temperatures and higher sea levels (in fact sea levels near me are already elevated from AMOC weakening). Like the date of its collapse, the overall effects are not fully known, but the AMOC has global impacts, regulating weather systems that feed billions. This isn’t just one more thing we’ll have to learn to live with; it would be calamity, a tipping-point-of-no-return that will split human history in two.
In basically every disease, people recognize the concept of spontaneous remission. Sometimes, people get better, and no one knows why. If the people who experience these remissions are religious, they might say something like "I prayed and God cured me."
No one but the most ardent fundamentalists takes this literally. People might accept this on a metaphorical level, but no serious doctor goes around advocating for faith healing because a few of his religious patients experienced spontaneous remission.
And yet, for some reason, when it comes to neglected illnesses, this goes out the window. People with ME/CFS, POTS, etc. who tried brain retraining and it didn't work for them will still grant validity to other patients who report recovering with these methods.
The whole neglected illness space exists in a bizarre world where the last 200 years of medicine and logic get thrown out the window and we still agree to pretend magic amulets work.
If anyone says they recovered from brain retraining, I treat them the exact same way I treat someone who says God cured their cancer. I smile and nod and on some vague, abstract level, I believe them. But I don't see their testimony as evidence of anything.
fun fact. this cutter is designed for disabled people. a lot of things we use on the daily (eg: ramraj velcro veshtis, magnet knife holders etc) are all invented for disabled ppl. increasing accessibility for disabled ppl makes the world a better place for everybody
if people's mental health gets worse bc of Covid, they should be going to LICENSED professionals, psychiatrists and psychologists, medication and therapy, not some bullshit course and snake oil from influencers
another leftist with way too many followers disappointing the disabled, whats new ? meanwhile i had never been mentally well in my life besides after Covid fully disabled me and forced me to look at everything i had done and gone through+
i love therapy, dialectics, mindfullness, meditation, etc. i think all of these things are very helpful for mental health and Covid can make those worse, but that's not the whole biological consequence of it, if it was i wldve been cured a million times over lol+
I know so many people being impacted by Covid who have no idea that it’s Covid that is causing all the health problems they are having. Bumped into the neighbour who was telling about the baby that died after the family party they’d all had before she had that ‘horrible virus’…