May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month.
You can help by liking and/or retooting this video. This 2017 TED talk features @jenbrea.
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #MEeps #CFSME #CFIDS #SEID #NeuroME @mecfs @cfs
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month.
You can help by sharing and/or liking this video. It is 3 minutes 5 seconds long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIo1v7KVJQ
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This film will give you an introduction to PEM (Post Exertional Malaise).
Once you've understood what PEM is about, you'll know a lot more about the debilitating chronic disease ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis).
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Day #2
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #MEeps #CFSME @mecfs @cfs
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May is #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this video
(9 minutes) This is ME (2020) "A short film exploring 'Spoon Theory' told through the eyes of a young woman struggling with ME/#ChronicFatigueSyndrome" https://vimeo.com/338532785 "The best thing I’ve ever done: Filmmaker with ME wants to raise awareness of hidden illness" https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/this-is-me-filmmaker-josh-pickup/
#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #Spoonies #Spoonie #SpoonTheory #PwME #MEeps #CFSME #CFIDS @spoonies @mecfs @cfs
A short film exploring 'Spoon Theory' told through the eyes of a young woman struggling with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ** Follow Pickup_Films on Twitter…
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(2 minutes)
"What is ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6f4zCe2ZtA
You can help by re-tooting this short video
#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
Day #4
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month.
You can help by re-tooting this 102-second video. "What is ME/CFS?" (excerpt from LEFT OUT, reproduced with kind permission from UpNorth Film, Norway)
#MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @mecfs @cfs
Day #5
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this video. It's a preview of a documentary, formerly called "Blue Ribbon" (now called The Forgotten Plague)
(3 minutes 5 seconds)
Day #6
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #CFSME @mecfs @cfs
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this video.
It's been approved for continuing medical education in the US
Day #7
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #CFSME @mecfs @cfs
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by sharing and/or liking this video. It was made by a woman, Laurel, with severe ME
Living with Severe ME
(5 minutes 13 seconds)
https://youtu.be/LvweCk44WHs
Day #8
#SevereME #SevereCFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #CFSME @mecfs @cfs
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this documentary, "Mom Needs to Lie Down".
It's a short Canadian film made in 2014. (11 minutes 25 seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvrU-ciEFcM&feature=youtu.be
Day #9
@mecfs @cfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #CFSME
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by retweeting and/or liking this documentary, "Invisible".
It's a 60-minute documentary made in 2009 (but is timeless) [Skip forward to 14:50 to go to the start of "Invisible" proper]
http://cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/invisible-vermont
Day #10
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME
INVISIBLE in Vermont is the title of this panel discussion, hosted by Vermont CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome). Thousands of Vermonters are homebound, disabled, misdiagnosed, and misunderstood while living with the realities of Fibromyalgia, Chemical Multiple Sensitivity, Lyme Disease, Gulf War Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. Panelists include: Kenneth J. Friedman PhD., Rik Carlson, both CFIDS Board Members, along with 2 members Julia Bond and Terence Naumann, MD. More information available at: www.vtcfids.org
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#May12 is #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / #ChronicFatigueSyndrome Day
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May is #MECFSawarenessmonth
Please help by retooting this 12-minute documentary which features Whitney Dafoe & others
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9_HwOUiImvw
#PwME @mecfs @cfs #SevereME #SevereMECFS
#SevereCFS #VerySevereME @SevereME
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May 12 is International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Day (and May is ME Awareness Month) You can help by retooting this (well-made) video.
(3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOflARSgNnE
Day #12
#MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #May12 #May12th #WorldMEDay2023 #WorldMEday #MEAwarenessDay
@mecfs @cfs
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This is a short (78-second) video about postexertional malaise in ME/CFS.
It uses the battery analogy, but also highlights the effects of payback i.e. the unusual results of exertion in ME. There is no sound.
May is #MEAwarenessMonth.
You can help raise awareness and understanding by retweeting and/or liking this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlRW_YGZmE
Day 13
@mecfs @cfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME #CFSME #MEeps
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(2 minutes)
"How does it feel to live with ME/CFS? Patients describe what it's like"
May is ME Awareness Month.
You can help raise awareness and understanding by retooting this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kEBGfQ1DhM
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month. You can help by retooting this 7-minute @abrokenbattery
video, "What is ME? (#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis aka #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #CFS)".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPdgz612nU
Day 15
@mecfs @cfs #meawareness #mecfs #cfs
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May is #MEcfs awareness month.
Please help by retooting this extract from a Golden Girls episode on #CFS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=963WCmb2_h4
(part 1 of 2)
Day 16
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @mecfs @cfs
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May is #MEcfs awareness month.
Please help by retooting this Golden Girls episode on #CFS
https://youtu.be/vVyLZTKDy2E
(part 2 of 2)
Day 16
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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May is #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis / #ChronicFatigueSyndrome (#MECFS) Awareness Month
Please help by retooting this 6-minute Paper Stop-motion Animation About ME/CFS
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May is #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month.
You can help to raise awareness and understanding by retweeting and/or
liking this 7 minute 8 second-video made on young UK woman with severe
ME
Day 18
#SevereME #SevereCFS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPH3kKkEYAI&feature=youtu.be
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May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this @MEAssociation video.
"A wonderfully illustrated comic to explain M.E also known as #ChronicFatigueSyndrome (#CFS) to other people" (2 minutes)
https://youtu.be/G4Rijt8jtZg
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May is M.E. Awareness Month.
You can help by retooting this video, a 1993 documentary, Living Hell. 14:00-1:10:16 (i.e. 56 minutes). There are also 2 interviews from Tom Hennessy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyB49g_l9Sg
Day 20
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME
@mecfs @cfs
This just made me cry. I feel sooo seen. And at the same time, it's been decades... 😢🥴😭
Good TED talk by Jennifer Brea, director of the film Unrest
Description of image included in the previous post: A screen shot of the video that shows Jennifer Brea sitting cross-legged in a wheelchair. TED in large red letters is on the stage behind her. At the bottom is the title of the talk, "What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose"
Irish ME/CFS Association
Getting Some Rest
Ahimsa