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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 21m

What more can be said? We've said it all, and we'll just keep saying it I guess... because what else can we do?

PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 1h

How can we get people to become conscious of the fact that

there is a disease that they don't know exists

that will absolutely destroy your life,

help is nonexistent and

you'll be screaming into an abyss for the rest of your torturous life if it takes you down

by a roll of the dice.

#MEcfs

The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 12h

There’s also #MECFS

1 in 22 covid infections will go on to develop ME, a condition with one of the worst qualities of life.

Only 25% of us can work.
The severest are too sick to leave their house and/or bed.

The absolute worst are tube fed, unable to tolerate light, sound or touch.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 4d

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades.

If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 4d

The key is "by themselves"...

You could just look it up instead of choosing to be ignorant

PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 4d

#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched 🎞

They Do Not Exist ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Things You Kill ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
HappyEnd ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 5d

"Labour govt commissions report from (hench)man who will deliver desired outcome"

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 6d

The truth of the matter is: anyone you know living with ME/CFS is one of the bravest mofos you know

Abusive assholes don't have the strength of character and heart to be able to endure an illness like this; they'd crumble within their first week of having it.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 8d

Still no response to people with ME who have reached out and asked you to revise the incorrect information in your piece...

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Rei @reialexandrayyc.bsky.social · 12d

I know I’m not really here much (I check messages/notifications though), but I wanted to share the gofundme of someone in the ME community.

This is urgent life or death. I don’t have much energy to promote this, but I hope you all will take up the cause:

gofund.me/8da0ebb46

Donate to Help Save Richard from Permanent Brain Damage, organized by Birgitta Abrahamsson

Help Save Richard from Permanent Brain Damage My son Richard ha… Birgitta Abrahamsson needs your support for Help Save Richard from Permanent Brain Damage

gofund.me

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The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 10d

Honestly sometimes I get why people have a hard time believing people with #MECFS.

The mechanics are so ridiculous.

“What do you mean the vibrations from a car ride can crash you?!?”

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heather @heatherfeather.bsky.social · 15d

if you really knew what moderate--severe--very-severe ME/CFS was like, you would be screaming on our behalf. you would not stop screaming. there are no social supports and no medical treatments. the situation is so much more dire than you can possibly imagine

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 15d

...controversy - and ME has plenty of it - but no one wants to go near it.

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#pwME
#MillionsMissing
#GreatestMEdicalScandal

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 15d

...career and now can't work anymore.

Nothing about why there are no treatments, how many are bedbound, how difficult it is to access insurance or benefits due to misleading guidelines, and most importantly, the historical reasons why we are in this situation.

Media usually love a scandal and...

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 15d

...our medical institutions here (in Australia), who still recommend exercise therapy.

No interest. She wanted to do more personal interest stories. I opted out.

She ran the type of article we've all seen before - person in their dressing gown in their kitchen, describing how they had a great...

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 15d

A couple of years ago I was in touch with a journalist and I tried to pitch to her the story of Alem Matthees, the work he had contributed to uncovering the PACE trial fraud and how he had become more devastatingly ill in the process.

I also said we needed someone asking the hard questions to...

emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 17d

People with mild ME/Long Covid & people who have recovered, please start advocating for the most severe instead of mildwashing the disease & using your story to sell your personal projects while feeding the media narrative of “individual overcoming” 🙏

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 17d

People with mild ME/Long Covid & people who have recovered, please start advocating for the most severe instead of mildwashing the disease & using your story to sell your personal projects while feeding the media narrative of “individual overcoming” 🙏

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 15d

You've said it so well.
We just keep being buried. Literally and figuratively.

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 15d

Would there be actually any time at all deemed "right" to finally look at us? For media and medicine to say MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS without bias, shame or minimisation?

#pwME
#GreatestMEdicalScandal

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

And we know that in many cases, we are battling against a well resourced and organised lobby.

But other times we are just dealing with straight ignorance, laziness and a resistance to challenging one's own biases.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

Whether it's using the term "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", describing the illness as due to fatigue or tiredness, propagating wellness cures, or making passive aggressive swipes at the patient community - it is extremely rare to come across a mainstream media piece that gets it right.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

It's 2025, 6 years into a pandemic that has caused an epidemic of new cases of #MECFS.

There have never been so many advocacy orgs and quality resources available to inform on MECFS.

And still, media pieces that mention #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis are misinformed and incorrect.

#pwME

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

I had taken a break from posting, and that Guardian article is a really good example of why.

I can't handle that the main avenue to connect with other pwME & researchers, and keep up to date on current affairs is via this little anger box in my hand.

Out of patience. 0 tolerance for ME misinfo.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

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Firstname Lastname #FuckTrump @notunpackedyet.bsky.social · 16d

And surprise surprise, #MEcfs gets talked about in conjunction with self-help, blame-the-patient woo-woo 'brain retaining' courses in The Guardian. Causation, ppl, causation. If that fixed you, you probably didn't have ME. Stop spreading this BS.

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PZ @itsmepz.bsky.social · 16d

The information on MECFS in this piece is incorrect.

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