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 people to spout 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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In the past there was just way too many doctors who didn't understand women's bodies and would jump directly to this. It's kinda swung the other direction though where they're less inclined to do this procedure; but in some cases it's absolutely needed. Glad to see you're getting the medical care you deserve.
I've had so many people tell me that I'll change my mind about kids and to think of my future partners. Kids are a NO and if someone I'm interested in wants kids, that's a deal breaker. It's so fucking dumb how obsessed with children people are. Glad my Dr listens to me.
It's almost like you come from a long line of child bearing mothers or something.
Don't discount people who want children. You don't, that's fine. But I don't see the need to hate on people who do want children; it's a natural instinct to have. At least some of the warnings come from lawsuits where doctors got sued after-the-fact.