#Illness

This week I learned about ME/CFS when I sent a 2-line email to my PhD advisor Joachim Hermisson. Me: “Hope you & your family are well. Could you send me
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Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into
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1) Today I watched a young woman who was shot, clearly in shock, stare in wonder at her bloody hand as she was loaded in an ambulance. I also spoke
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Huge: Masks LOWER SEVERITY of COVID too! Masks definitely reduce transmission, but scientist now think that MASKS CAN ALSO MAKE ILLNESS MILDER. How? masks may limit the dose of virus
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So, all in all, I'm okay now. A lot better, at least. Mental illnesses SUCK. A lot of us have them, and many - far, far too many - suffer
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Stop saying things like "No matter what happens tomorrow, it'll be fine, we're gonna be okay" because it's privileged and and ableist as fuck.I don't say it or show it
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It strikes me how much of the Covid debate is happening outside of the communities most affected by it.1 in 32 Americans have tested positive; have 1 in 32 people
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After having COVID in March, I did not think I had any long-term health consequences other than a little shortness of breath. Of course, like everything with COVID, we still
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*Thread*Can we please dial down the rhetoric?'Tsunami of mental illness''lifelong problems' This narrative pathologizes young people's understandable reactions to abnormal experiences, but also fails to take into account
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Being willing to sacrifice the elderly and the people with underlying medical issues on the altar of the economy and supposed “freedom” is not surprising coming from this ghoul. It
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Trying again to talk a friend into watching Doom Patrol and I think the single biggest reason it's such a huge success is because it focuses itself almost entirely upon
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Thread: Sorry to rant but over the past 48 hours i've seen multiple posts explaining that sunflower lanyards are a mask exemption lanyard that are handed out by Doctors and
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I didn’t get a chance to comment on this more the other day, but we are absolutely seeing this surge of anorexia in Saskatoon over the last 6 months or
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Now that #wspd has passed, I would like for all of us to ask ourselves: how do we treat those suffering with mental illness, addiction, or contemplating suicide? We
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I know I probably seem like I oscillate between coronavirus concern and dismissal. Where I'm actually coming from is a place of deep frustration, because some of the highest costs
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The real vocabulary lesson you should have learned15 terms to know: 1. Assets - things you own2. Liabilities - things you owe3. Budget - tracks income/expenses4. Net worth - difference
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