cfs/me
CFS/ME and “faulty illness beliefs”: The incredible hubris of the psychiatro-patriarchal complex
This post was originally posted on March 19, 2009 at Hoyden About Town.
New Scientist this week published an interview with infamous psychiatrist Simon Wessely. Wessely persists in believing, in the face of all the evidence, that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis (CFS/ME)* is a uniquely UK/American psychological condition caused by internet-triggered “faulty illness beliefs”.
Here’s [...]
Psychiatrists see reasonable adaptations to CFS, label it “cause” and “maladaptation”
[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on April 27, 2009.]
There’s a whole industry that involves measuring the survival techniques and truths of people with CFS, then pointing the finger at them for causing their own illness with their Scientifically! Proven! personality “deficits”.
Here’s the latest product of that industry. They took 38 [...]
On ambient intimacy and assistive devices
[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on January 27, 2009.]
I was having a discussion about ambient intimacy in a couple of elsewheres, where I tried (and possibly failed) to say that what is so reviled by opinion editors and other meatsnobs can be useful in all sorts of ways.
I like the [...]
Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities
[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on May 4, 2007.]
This is my first personal post about being sick. A “coming-out”, to some of my online friends. And a whole lot of elaboration, for those who know I’m sick, but don’t know the details. It’s taken me ages to write, and I haven’t [...]
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