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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to Chronic Illness@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

3 year waiting period, have to hire a lawyer, a million forms to fill out, it's a nightmare!

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3 year waiting period, have to hire a lawyer, a million forms to fill out, it's a nightmare!

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM to Chronic Illness@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    I mean this wasn’t a government service, don’t get me wrong. So it’s kind of really gross to me that lawyer’s take a cut rather than doing the work pro bono. She only worked with the charity 3-4 days a fortnight.

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      Welcome to the United States!

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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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  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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