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Chronic Illness

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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.

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  1. Be excellent to each other

  2. Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc

  3. 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.

  4. No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.

  5. 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't help but agree with you.

In English they say "ignorance is bliss" but in Finnish our idiom is from the same origin in Greek (through ages) and IIRC, we're closer to the original translation; "tieto lisää tuskaa", "knowledge increases agony".

My knowledge of how naive he's being is increasing my agony at the moment. I wish I could just live in whatever world he lives in where he can homestead some potatoes and chickens and still utilise products like smartphones and high-speed internet and "just take what he wants".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Hes also completely willfully blind to human nature.

As if greed and a desire for power is gonna magically disappear because money disappears. You'll just end up with people hording access to resources, and the creation of a underclass of people who will be forced to work the hoarders resources under threat of beatings, deaths, or maiming of their loved ones.

and we know this, because we have documented history of this already being done, in the past, multiple times.

but it doesnt matter, as long as they get to live their carefree hippy commune fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't help but to hear these guys in this WKUK skit when I read his messages.

https://youtu.be/fibDNwF8bjs?si=MvzwzoS7fk7-eLN1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago