@curiousdatacat
Nope you’re not the only one. Society isn’t working. Everyone is pretending things are normal when they aren’t- that’s unsettling in itself.
What’s next is such a loaded question.
Do you ever miss yourself? The one that was healthy?
I miss her. How do you grieve yourself while you're alive watching it happen, & remembering what you've lost & wondering what could have been?
#NEISvoid
#chronicillness
#DisabilityTwitter
I can’t see many
#pwme
#MECFS
in my TL again. Are you guys there? Last time this happened you only started showing up after you replied to my ‘where are you folks?’ Tweet.
Missing lots of other people too.
I hate to do this…
If you can see this tweet please like/reply.
#MEAwarenessday
Are you aware I’ve
#VerySevereME
& no one gives a shit? I’ve been through 20+ years of awareness days & no one cares. The very ill are forgotten even by others with
#ME
. I wasn’t expecting a cure by now but was expecting treatment. Only a few years left without.
If you're on the
#pwME
tag, can you please like this tweet?
I swear I am invisible. Maybe just uninteresting to other PwME, not sure. Could be the algorithm? Posting now for time difference.
(Could be that I'm talking about problems with Twitter...)
Actually a Q:
How many
#chronicillness
people out there never have restorative sleep? I mean ever, no matter how much sleep you get.
#PWME
have it in our diagnostic criteria.
Who else is in sleep hell with us?
#Neisvoid
I don't usually mark my birthday but this past year there were a few times when I didn't think I'd make it, so here's to me.
Happy Birthday you old bag.
🍰🎂
I don't have the energy to interact with people much on Twitter & definitely not on FB. There's lots of us too sick to. Don't forget we exist.
#pwME
#Chronicillness
#MECFS
#NEISvoid
I’m trying to escape an abusive environment.
This is my 3rd attempt in 8 yrs. Nobody in my home city
#Melbourne
Australia is listening.
Can anyone out there help me?
I’m very ill & doing this all is killing me but I have to get out this time.
Plz RT!
#NEISvoid
#DisabilityTwitter
Why are posted bedrooms of
#ChronicIllness
folks so immaculate? Are they always like that?
Mine looks like a bomb hit. Partly because if stuff is rearranged I’ll never find it again (as health declines, so does the ability to find anything). If I can’t see it, doesn’t exist.
I'm left wondering about all the very severe
#pwme
that had no online presence & disappeared quietly into the night, no online friends, perhaps no real life friends or family to mourn them. Let us remember them too.
#MyalgicE
#severeME
I'm 38 years old. Been sick for 16 years and nearly all my friends and acquaintances with ME are dead. That's not how it should be. This is what people twice my age should be saying.
I really need somewhere to live. Can someone please help me? I’m being neglected and abused. I can’t do anything better than I am I just need help.
Those domestic violence numbers don’t work they don’t help disabled people. I need someone to take me in.
Please help.
I’m eating baby food & liquids because I have no energy to chew or digest solids. Bed 24/7.
How much worse do I have to get before someone will help me? Doctors, services, help! Keep asking & nobody listens!
Is this really Australia?
😭
#Auspol
#chronicIllness
#VerySevereME
Beyond exhausted but wanted to ask people who have/had
#COVID19
:
Did your hair start falling out?
Mine started coming out in big clumps 2 nights ago.
#LongCovid
#Neisvoid
@Corey_Feldman
You keep being ignored because ppl like Matt Damon want a medal for not being an abusive male. You're fighting complicit white males, the most dangerous kind. Until they change I don't know... More of your buddies that were abused need to come forward.
So I shit myself.
Put on pair of disposable adult nappies I bought last time this happened- when parties &more people made sensory hell.
Horrible stomach ache. Stress period & now I shit myself as waking up bc couldn’t get up fast enough.
This is
#SevereME
#MEAwarenessHour
@SarahLerner
I was supposed to be admitted to hospital for a bunch of tests & scans done in one go because I’m too incapacitated for separate trips.
The doctors involved just argued with each other & used me as a go-between for six months. I was not admitted. No scans, IDK if I’m ok.
I can’t end up in a place like this:
I don’t think people realise what few housing options are available to the sick and disabled. If you aren’t set up for the long haul, things can go bad very quickly. And stay that way,
Brain completely wrecked after
#Covid
infection 3. Nothing improved after 10 wks. Nose bled entire time. I can’t remember anything. It’s the worst ‘fog’ I’ve ever had. How many infections do I have left?
Help me find a home. Covid brought to me here every time.
#LongCovid
#PWLC
Know that feeling you get when you have to sleep to recharge but you're running on adrenaline so when you wake up you could be crashed harder than you have been in years instead? I was writing essays in March... How many times do we have to say goodbye to ourselves?
#pwME
#MECFS
My father is a narcissist w psychopathic tendencies. Psychiatrist made me promise to escape because unsafe. They’re keeping me ill so I can’t. Mother was a victim first, now partner in crime. This family promised help but lied. Lost half my life. Help me be free.
#MEAwarenessHour
It’s strange how people with
#ChronicIllness
or
#Disability
aren’t allowed to be multifaceted human beings. I’ve been told so many times that I don’t have the personality of a sick person. What the hell does that mean? (I know what it means.)
Are there any Australian journalists wiling to write & publish a piece on me? I’m trying to escape abuse, find an advocate, get the NDIS, etc. I‘ve tried all the orgs & the government isn’t interested either.
The Canary UK has written a piece about me but I’m yet to find help.
A woman with severe
#MEcfs
in Australia is appealing for help to leave an abusive household.
@h_sharland
reports how appalling & increasingly life-threatening circumstances underscore a systemic failure of services. Read & please support
@halcionandon
:
When my great grandma sick Europe WW2 she lived middle of nowhere but could get home visit doctor. Bombs didn’t stop docs.
I can’t! Australia 2023.
When ask help, too sick to help. I don’t understand.
Rt please nobody sees me.
@1goodtern
@keetmuise
I think a lot of people have an internalised “everything is fucked” & will keep going as normal until it stops. Otherwise they’d have to face the problem & do something. That leads to more problems like seeing we have no competent leaders to deal with it all. Ingnorance is bliss.
So, for people not in Australia or not reading our news...
Today we were told by our media to buy paracetamol so we can manage Covid at home. All 25 million of us. We will have a million active cases soon. Hospitals, labs, health care workers aren't coping so... Panadol?
I have no one left
#CloseToME
If I did I wouldn't be this sick. I wouldn't have to do everything myself which is nothing now. That's my only communication of today bc no energy.
Those of you w ppl who care don't realise how lucky you are.
#pwME
#MECFS
#ChronicIllness
#NEISvoid
So many patients with
#MECFS
have no one left. Those who have family and friends please show the world your reality and how ME affects your life. United our voices will sound louder. Your voice is needed. Please use
#CloseToME
and SHARE this message.
So I’ve gone mute and can’t move except my finger tapping this out. I just keep getting worse.
If you’re out there-👋🏻 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I’m trapped in here.
Wonder if twitter will let anyone see this🙁
#SevereMe
#MECFS
#LongCovid
#pwlc
#pwME
- yes both, I am not lucky.
Why is so hard to get away from abusive people when you’re most vulnerable?
Why doesn’t ‘the system protect’ us?
Why don’t good people protect us?
Abused people of all ages & backgrounds seem to have no options unless they’re rich.
Any help I haven’t thought of?
❤️🔁💬 to ⬆️
If/when I die from this, I want the names of everyone abusive or neglectful that could have helped to have their names released. Maybe that’s too vengeful for a placid disabled person to wish but I am a human first & you had a choice. (Nobody here, IRL).
#MECFS
#pwME
#LongCovid
Where do disabled/chronically ill people get money for personal assistants? I’ve seen a few with them but never had a chance to ask about it.
I used to joke about this but some people actually have them??? I need one!
#NEISvoid
@Tinu
TY Tinu!
I’m sick, disabled, paying $$$ healthcare & saving to escape longterm abuse & not be trapped in a disability group home, aged care (yes young ppl) or homeless.
Please help or like & RT💜
Australians can to halcionandon
#MEAwarenessHour
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
I feel like I’m on a ladder that never ends, but I can’t climb back down; I have to keep climbing.
I never reach the clouds, day after day I climb. Weaker & weaker. Further from home.
I got on that ladder the day I got sick with
#ME
I’m in rolling
#PEM
. Anyone who’s had this knows you need months of rest to get out. I don’t remember huge chunks of my life & it will keep getting get worse until it kills me.
I joked about resting in a cabin by sea w a carer (or similar) but I don’t have a choice anymore.
How is it that
#PwME
in the UK (some in Germany) have organised a protest & campaign but here in Australia we are 🤷♀️? UK organisations have better government funding than ours but this
#DontLetMEDie
campaign was people power not an big org, is that right? Can someone explain?
A woman with severe
#MEcfs
in Australia is appealing for help to leave an abusive household.
@h_sharland
reports how appalling & increasingly life-threatening circumstances underscore a systemic failure of services. Read & please support
@halcionandon
:
Is
@TraceySpicer
a
#LongCovid
sufferer too? How many of us are there in Australia? Maybe she can use her platform to help herself & us. My GP doesn’t believe in it. Won’t try any treatments for Long Covid nor
#MyalgicE
. Books closed for GPs so no progress. Prob for most patients.
I miss my health so much. I miss who I used to be. Who I was meant to become.
Illness is like being an alternate self on a different timeline.
Like a buried a person the day I got sick & I am what is left. But there was no funeral.
Life went on. For everyone else.
#NEISvoid
@DiaryofaSickGrl
I’d want them to experience it.
You don’t truly know how it feels until it happens to you, but when you have no empathy like most of my family it doesn’t matter at all unless you experience it yourself. Then it’s the worst thing ever AND EVERYONE MUST KNOW
Let them know.
I wish I had the energy to interact with people. Have online & IRL discussions, but most times I just can't.😩
I see you though.
It's even worse knowing my tweets aren't seen much/ shadow banned. Other people don't see me. Thanks Twitter. Not everything is about money.
#Neisvoid
CW: Abuse
Not a fun topic but…
Those w
#ChronicIllness
#Disability
: have you been abused/neglected/ treated badly by your nearest & dearest for being this way?
#Neisvoid
#MECFS
I thought I was the only one for so long. 🥺 Trying to escape.
Might help to share. Or ignore.
I pushed way too hard again. Bad habits. I do seriously think if I had a carer and a small quiet cabin by the sea to ‘radically rest’ in for a few months I’d improve a ton. A good doctor nearby would be a bonus.
Nobody understands
#SevereME
or worse, banging my head against the wall with little energy I have. I can’t get help & vultures everywhere trying to take advantage.
Abuse & neglect is cherry on top. By authorities, by family by people I supposed to trust. I am so exhausted. 😭
Barely able to type. Please help me get away before it’s too late. I don’t even have good doctors that know how to treat me or energy to set up up anything to escape. Check profile for details. Cognitive functions bad.
Don’t know how to tag this.
Help.
#NEISvoid
Does anyone feel like we’re living in overtime? Like 2020.4? Watching a ball being kicked around in a soccer match but no goals being kicked. Everyone so very tired.
But we have no idea what happens when the game ends.
Last year on my birthday I fell down and cried and cried and I couldn’t get up while my abusers ate dinner and ignored me.
I texted my neighbour “help” over and over again until she came over and helped me. This year she isn’t there anymore. Who will I text this year?
Covid again brought to me by family.
Not again.
3rd time. Already have
#LongCovid
. Rolling PEM. Now this on top and not sure when Easter abuse begins.
Give me strength and get me out of here.
#MeAwarenessHour
I desperately need an advocate. If you are able to help, let me know. Melbourne best but anywhere in Australia is ok you can dial into any meetings.
Please ❤️💬🔁
For
#LongCovidAwaneressDay
I was gaslight and abused by GP who threatened take medication away unless do as told and take medication he wants that makes me sick. Still shaking in bed. Scared found my profile.
#NEISvoid
How do you ask for help?
Is there a 'proper' way to make doctors listen in particular? I find they're suspicious no matter how I act. Too happy & I'm coping so it's not bad. If crying I must be hysterical. But don't be average.
Trying to get an urgent appt. Tips?
It feels like I’ve lost a month of my life in a coma but I’ve spent it in bed in my head trying to escape sensory overload.
I keep expecting my birthday & Easter to happen soon but then realise it already happened without me.
I need to get out of here please help please help
@gemcarey
Crowdfunding needs. Scrounging for scraps. Homeless. Dead.
There’s me in Aus. On the cusp of Very severe. I do almost everything myself in bad environment & can’t sustain it. Services meant to help don’t. I’m struggling to get better so don’t end up dead.
Ppl w help don’t get it
This is exactly the problem: there’s nowhere to go. The abuse orgs don’t help disabled people. Other people need to help us bc the government won’t.
I REPEAT: OTHER PEOPLE WITH A HEART NEED TO HELP US. NOBODY ELSE WILL. WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES.
#MECFS
#PwME
#LongCovid
#SevereME
What happens to the severe/very severe people whose parents are abusive and have nowhere to go? Why isn’t there some type of care home that understands these illnesses?
I can’t think of anywhere these people can go that would not make them worse. They are at the mercy of
Health is for the rich & connected.
I’ll probably make it another 2-3 years at most.
I never thought I’d get this bad - mostly because I’m in the wrong location with the wrong people without the money or care.
A wasted life. Australia 2023.
#DontLetMeDie
#VerySevereME
I hope I get out of this. I just want to live and get better.
People who abuse the sick and disabled are pieces of shit. My brain tells me otherwise a lot. I must remind myself.
People who ignore it aren’t much better.
So many
#PwME
have died this year already. This is the same hospital Maeve died in from malnutrition. It’s entirely preventable.
It could be you or me one day.
Please sign this petition.
#VerySevereME
#MECFS
'Sign this petition to help try to save Alice Barrett's life. She's 25 & has
#VerySevereME
.
She's currently in Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust hospital.
They are refusing to adapt their NG tube feeding policy for her requirements'
#MECFS
#pwME