I think it's pretty common everywhere. Thing is, it's a job. Even people who like their jobs find aspects of them depressing: the bureaucracy,...
Let me play devil's advocate for a minute. What you describe is my experience too, but what if we're wrong? What if it's much more nuanced or...
Sorry, that might have been a bit misleading! I couldn't walk round the shop on my best day, I'd use the powered wheelie. The point is that some...
So we tell it as a story? A sort of witness account, where the judge will stop you if you try offer explanations or motivations, because you're...
We can't really show that. Whilst there's no evidence ME/CFS is psychological in origin, we can't produce convincing evidence that it isn't—and if...
Yeah, I get that. it does have that meaning to me because I have psoriatic arthritis as well. It's not just having a bit more pain—as in...
Are they? I'm guilty of not bothering to read most of this stuff, but is the UK still doing publicly-funded studies on BPS models of ME/CFS? I...
In terms of general understandability and familiarity from other long term conditions, I'd say flare is better than crash. The common meaning of...
That looks like a nice one for today's Contradiction Corner.
I usually take that as an assurance the NHS is doing nothing of the sort. More likely a journalist needed something to fill a space and anything...
One of the things we could do is to keep our powder dry until we've got a story. Something positive, like a study exploring intriguing findings...
Yes, deliberately so. The brother of one of my ancestors left a legacy in 1773, which was to exist as the Thomas Sawden Charity for the next 240...
I'd say we need charities we trust to use our donations first. If we're not giving to them or talking about what good work they do, why should...
I don't think we can. We could help them, if they recognised they needed our help and were willing to engage in good faith and as equals. But we...
I'm glad I've never had to work with anyone willing to use lines like those in a point about a Jewish man, however much they disagreed with him....
When it comes to motivations, I wonder if it'd be useful to compare the MEA to our bat group. I pay their membership sub of £10 a year. I can't...
So anyone who wants to get a sense of people's real responses now has to spend hours a day screenshotting stuff? Next thing we know, the ME/CFS...
Agree with the sentiment, but four of my voluntary groups use it as their sole method of contacting members. The others make heavy use of...
It contains a disinfectant, chlorhexidine. When Covid started there were warnings that Dermol hadn't yet been shown to kill the virus, but later...
A lot of us don't have assets to leave anyway because we were never able to earn enough. I rent both my property and my vehicle, so there's...
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