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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Why would she be approved for that 8f she wasn't seeking it? I don't understand.
This is not a neutral informative piece, it's trying to push a narrative and build support for an agenda. Part of that is how this particular point is phrased. Her condition is eligible for MAID, since she doesn't want MAID and hasn't applied for it, she hasn't been approved.
I’m having trouble parsing that actually - it sounds like she’s applied for it and has been approved for it, but would not like to resort to that option.
The conditions accepted for MAiD have broadened but to actually be “approved” for the procedure you have to apply for it. The article says “… comes amid her being approved” not “her condition being eligible”
I agree with you that this is a persuasive piece which leverages MAiD as a call to action to better care for people with this condition.