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General / Mental Health Support Thread
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SebastianBlue
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Really brightens my day to read this!Finally got through to the Samaritans and spoke to them for half an hour
Felt a lot better
Come on City !
Up the blues!
GornikDaze
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Hope the boys do you/us proud laterFinally got through to the Samaritans and spoke to them for half an hour
Felt a lot better
Come on City !
Fantastic mate, hope it's start of upwards for youFinally got through to the Samaritans and spoke to them for half an hour
Felt a lot better
Come on City !
Saddleworth2
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Long Covid says hi.and if there was a time in human history to have cancer (or really any condition or disease) this would be it.
SebastianBlue
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To be fair, even though I know a few that have long covid, and it is an immense struggle for them, I would still rather have it—or my condition—now than pretty much any other time in human history.Long Covid says hi.
That's brilliant!Finally got through to the Samaritans and spoke to them for half an hour
Felt a lot better
Come on City !
Saddleworth2
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I have two kids decimated by it and although you are probably right, it doesn’t feel like it given the amount of money and research currently pointed at getting some type of treatment.To be fair, even though I know a few that have long covid, and it is an immense struggle for them, I would still rather have it—or my condition—now than pretty much any other time in human history.
SebastianBlue
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Yeah, although I don’t have PASC, I can say with my MSA journey—which included confusion, fear, endless tests, false dawns, unnecessary treatment regimes from incorrect diagnoses, and the existential dread inducing uncertainty of it all until I got the correct diagnosis—it can obliterate your will to go on.I have two kids decimated by it and although you are probably right, it doesn’t feel like it given the amount of money and research currently pointed at getting some type of treatment.
I am actually volunteering (in the way I can) for an organisation here in the US that works to help people avoid that experience, provides resources to ensure faster and more accurate paths to accurate diagnosis, and works to educate medical professionals on the disease, how to recognise the warnings signs early for assessment, and support patients through prognosis and treatment.
From what I understand similar organisations are popping up gor PASC and related conditions like ME/CFS.
All of it can be dehumanising and soul crushing but, if you think back to pretty much any other time in our collective history, our experience will have been worse.
Go back just 30 years for me and I am probably already dead.