Mastodawn

RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116640578558884764

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"Long COVID did not create medicine’s discomfort with invisible illness. It exposed a preexisting pattern that millions of patients had been navigating for decades.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, POTS — these conditions share remarkable clinical overlap with Long COVID, and they share something else too: a history of being dismissed, minimized, and inadequately researched"

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Ahimsa

"What changed was not the existence of invisible illness.

What changed was the number of people experiencing it all at once.

Once millions of previously healthy people began experiencing chronic exhaustion, cognitive dysfunction, and functional instability simultaneously, the limitations of the healthcare system became far harder to dismiss."

@mecfs @longcovid

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