A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.
Be excellent to each other
Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Two part meme. Part one is a crying young person who looks like they're desperate to get someone to understand something. Caption: 'Me explaining why I can walk fast and run but can't stand or walk slowly well'. Part two is a super annoyed looking, slightly older person. Caption: 'people still assuming I'm lying out of laziness'.
You got the meme wrong. Hypotension is on the couch, ableists are up.
Also why does anything on search engine with tension in it comes back to hypertension. I need my salt...
Thanks for letting me know! I'm autistic, so I sometimes mix these things up. I guess I just related to the person on the lefts expression.
Don't get me started. The RAGE I feel when search engines try to correct me when I'm searching up a health issue, simply because the opposite problem is more common. One time, I saw a link that said something like 'healthy blood pressure range' and was like, omg finally. But it said 'anything under 130/90 is great! ☺️👍'. I was like?? I'm pretty sure one of the numbers is supposed to be three digit???? Do you not know what the word range means? Ugh so alienating.
I also hate that I need my salt but I'm not supposed to have iodine, and salt almost always has iodine here. I get it, it's healthy for most people, but not for me.
Meme wise, you're not wrong. But looking at the health of us with low blood pressure, we should use the template the other way around to be on the couch raising our legs while someone is tell us that we should go for a walk, it is good for our health.