a decade of campaigning amid medical stagnation
As part of the Canary and the Chronic Collaboration’s Amplify training programme, founder of ME Foggy Dog and Stripy Lightbulb CIC Sally Callow writes for us on her 10 years…
Long Covid not even on the general election agenda is very 2024
It doesn’t really matter who gets elected during this years general election for the 1.9 million people living with long Covid or the hundreds of thousands living with myalgic encephalomyelitis…
Long Covid exercise programme: council offers harmful treatment
A council in Northamptonshire has launched a recovery scheme for people living with long Covid. However, the 12-week long Covid exercise programme is centred round incremental exercise. Of course, this…
Lightning Process gaslights long Covid patients
The BBC has exposed how an insidious group of predatory charlatans have been gaslighting long Covid patients. It revolves around a pseudoscientific treatment known as the ‘Lightning Process’. It would…
Unite To Fight conference on ME/CFS & long Covid announced
A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference – ‘Unite To Fight’ – is about to take place for the first time. Already, the event is…
ME/CFS and Australian state trapping woman in domestic abuse
A woman living with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australia is desperately appealing for help to leave an abusive household. The neglect and abuse the Australian state, healthcare…
research featured in a campaign to shake it up
A new campaign seeks to shake up the dire state of funding for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In time for ME Awareness Day on 12 May, a volunteer…
ME/CFS charities work with psychologising organisation
Two of the biggest myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) charities in the UK may be a little too cosy with a controversial organisation pulling the strings behind the clinical care for patients…
another UK woman is being abused in an NHS hospital
After public outcry and media coverage around a campaign called #BringMillieHome, it has come to light another young woman living – Carla – with ‘severe ME’ (myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, also…
Simon Wessely: psychologiser-in-chief is literally everywhere
Guardian journalist George Monbiot has been calling out the continued appalling abuse of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also known as ME/CFS). However, there’s one prominent, powerful psychiatrist standing…
ME/CFS survey shows widespread systemic medical abuse
The NHS is continuing to unconscionably abuse two women living with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) – and putting their lives at risk. As it metes out this horrendous crusade of…
suicide, forced treatment, psychiatric detentions
The NHS killed Sophia Mirza on 15 November 2005. Sophia lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). In July 2003, psychiatrists got cops to smash the door into Sophia’s home down and…