George Monbiot on ME/CFS, PACE, BPS and Long Covid

I think politics is OK provided it specifically relates to ME/CFS.

 

So saying that members of political parties quite like food, drinking, are in the habit of breathing, and use the toilet - would be banned under rule 12 (as generalisations about members or supporters of political parties), and not just rules 4 (taking this thread off topic) and 5 (no medical advice).

 

Those are no more generalisations of a political group than of the whole of humanity, though.

And if something is an essential process of living, is it really a generalisation, or just a basic need?

(I take the point some people may not strictly 'like' eating and drinking, but they certainly need to do these things.)

 

A friend of mine who is severely affected has just had a poem published about medical misogyny.

Some excerpts are below but I hope people will visit the site for the full version.

Tarnished idol, whom I sought to revere: ...

You favoured male cell lines, male mice;
blithely sent us home with stopping hearts,
and peeling myelin sheaths. We were, you claimed,
just hurt by careless love or mired in sulk.

So certain were you that this hamstrung life—
dreams shipwrecked, stripped of rigging, in my depths—
was trifling, girlish neurasthenia:
Paxil and pure thoughts could will me back.

Medicine, will you reprove your faults?
...

Full poem

Go to this thread to discuss the poem.
https://www.s4me.info/threads/a-jus...-misogyny-re-me-cfs-and-more-generally.22646/