Chronic Illness
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 healthy people to share their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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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.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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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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Respect the Group’s Purpose. It’s a support forum for people with chronic illness to vent and share and talk together. It’s not a place for healthy people to come and give their opinions.
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this hits home for me, never been diagnosed with anything but i also could never dance and it wasn’t in the normal “im just bad at dancing” way, either. people struggle to understand the kind of trauma that can stem from that sort of experience, and why you might look like you’re gonna cry at the mere suggestion of going to dance, or swim, or something, etc.
core memory is me being like “i don’t understand why people dance and find so much enjoyment in it” and my girlfriend saying “well, it’s a form of self-expression for most people, kind of like drawing.”
and like… idk something about that just really hit for me in that moment. for me dancing was… the absolute opposite of self-expression. i’d never felt less capable of expressing than when put on a dance floor. it made me feel broken in a weird and inhuman way to learn there was this big facet of the human experience that i was just inexplicably missing out on for no reason…