Ethan Suplee

The truth is that long Covid is a very poorly understood, poorly defined condition. As a result people who are severely debilitated get told they are faking, or their symptoms are "all in their head." This creates a situation in which any therapy perceived to validate that position is automatically seen as a threat. Patients who do recover using mind-body therapies are thus doubly gaslit: by the public that thinks their symptoms are fake, and then by people like @TaylorLorenz, who assert that their RECOVERY must also be fake! There are likely many, many different subtypes of what is referred to under the broad umbrella of long Covid. Some of those subtypes might respond to so-called "mind-body therapies," or gentle exercise, or a range of interventions that are currently taboo. Unfortunately, we cannot have a conversation about that possibility, or how to sort those who would respond from those who wouldn't, because even suggesting the possibility leads to the accusation that this is about invalidating their sickness and saying it's fake. What I highlight here is that it's PATIENTS who suffer the consequences. I report on patients who were incredibly sick, and then got better. If reporting their stories faithfully is garbage, it's not me who's being accused of laundering pseudoscience. It's the patients themselves. wired.com/story/the-painful-…