I’m sorry you experienced gaslighting. Fuck that doctor for misinformation they said…

1. There is no approved treatment for Long COVID, nor is there any rigourous large scale clinical trials showing benefit in objective measures
2. There are multiple biological differences between long COVID and Depression

But yeah shitty doctors tend to just blame it on depression because they are too lazy to learn about something new.

If you need a community — I have found by far my favourite community to be the https://s4me.info/ forum. A lot of researchers are there — the vibe is generally nice. And people have a generally good scientific background so it’s not full of people recommending random unproven shit and claiming all sorts of unproven BS.

They are so based

Same — that’s why I tend to point people to a specific instance, instead of lemmy as a whole.

Yes, they fear China will turn them into “communists”.

If only they realise how close their beloved AFD and the CCP is ideologically.

What AI model did you use?

and in practice they are more MLM (maoism) or MLS (stalinism).

Yeah I think I elaborated too much. Let’s just keep recommending small instances — because the current centralisation on world sucks.

Yeah. join-lemmy.org unfortunately isn’t great because it often points to random semi dead instances.

Something like,

The instance you join doesn’t matter much — because you can access all content no matter what instance you are on — but it can be nice to be on an instance that shares you interests and values, because you will have to conform to the rules of that instance. Think of it like your clan — it’s like your email being yourname@yourworkplace — you can still email everyone else and see their emails, but it signals something about you, and it has different rules.

Here are a couple options:

General Purpose:

• discuss.online (hosted US)
• lemm.ee
• lemmy.cafe
• sh.itjust.works (hosted Canada)

Interests:

• mander.xyz (Science)
• programming.dev (Programming)
• infosec.pub (Cybersecurity)
• lemmynsfw.com (Porn)

Diversity:

• lemmy.blahaj.zone (LGBTQ+)

Regions/Langauges:

• jlai.lu (French)
• feddit.org (German)
• lemmy.ca (Canada)
• aussie.zone (Australia)

Ideology:

• lemmy.dbzer0.com (Anarchism and Piracy)
• slrpnk.net (Environmentalist Leftists)
• lemmy.ml (Authoritarian Leftists)

Please copypaste my comment and add instances / improve it

Edit different versions for different instances

I made an alternative linking to lemm.ee

because in general this is a good flyer

And was intimidated so bad by the legal system he killed himself.

In my books, all those things make you cool.

Apart from claiming long COVID is hysteria or exercise and raw milk will magically fix it, the new right wing gimmick is saying Long COVID is caused by the vaccines…

Yep! Even large swaths of the medical field are ignoring it.

We had psychiatrists claiming it was mass hysteria until fairly recently.

Yes, this is why I made it, I saw like 5 posts I wanted to reply to with this — but wanted to emphasise it’s not just a race thing, but any sort of non-white christian able bodied male, human diversity.

Some people with long COVID are confined to their beds with lifelong damage, some are even tubefed, or have lost the ability to speak.

We gotta start taking this seriously instead of erasing it!

https://www.longcovidadvoc.com/

Same — I have a disabling illness which means I’m bedridden for life — so all I get to do is imagine what I would do if I were abled, instead of actually doing it.

Love Sex Dreams

United Healthcare is the literal worst healthcare company out there. Sue me — I dare you.