"Dismissal and gaslighting — you’re just depressed, it’s in your head — are among the worst aspects of long Covid, and can be as crushing as the physical suffering. They’re hard to fight because the symptoms can be so beyond the realm of everyday experience as to seem unbelievable, and because those same symptoms can sap energy and occlude mental acuity" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.2XkN.KUlg0YJKb-s5&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share
@p_r_francois @freakonometrics Oui, il y a une invisibilisation de ces symptômes. Tout comme les maladies et syndromes de grande fatigue étaient systématiquement niés.
@p_r_francois @freakonometrics Encore plus déprimant (je trouve) : "The number of papers on elephantiasis and intestinal worms, which together affect more than a billion people, is less than a tenth of the figure for diabetes and HIV/AIDS." https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/dec/19/against-excellence