#also of course mentally ill people are going to exaggerate their symptoms online.

[itsabee]

Also one more thing about DID, I don’t like the implication in that ask that people are “faking” having fictives, even if it’s forced in some way they are still mentally ill people trying to contextualize themselves and their lived experience in a specific way. A lot of fictives I’ve known have started out as close to canon then slowly drifted away from it as they become more “themselves” because again. It depends on the system and the alters role in the system etc etc. there is no one size fits all, but of the few systems I’ve known with creepypasta/mh fictives, a server based around some aspect of canon was not healthy for them. I’m sure there are systems that can handle being in a fandom server but I have not met one yet.

[thedandelionresistance]

I'm gonna add something important: I am the person who can't get a lot of vaccines that antivaxxers tokenize.

I have a legitimate allergy condition that, combined with my comorbidities, means I react to some vaccines and that those reactions can spiral into flare-ups that could permanently worsen my disabilities.

I got the vaccines until I couldn't anymore, because at the time I had a lot more exposure to covid and getting sick was still more debilitating and deadly.

Now that I can't?

There's a very real possibility I won't be able to participate in most of society for the rest of my life.

I won't be able to ever go to a concert (something I haven't ever done), attend book signings, or participate in community theater or band again.

Going grocery shopping is a risk for me, though I can't afford delivery services.

I will likely be unable to attend the weddings, baby showers, and other significant life events of many of my close friends. I almost certainly will have to miss my brother's wedding and my grandparents' funerals in the next few years.

I cannot attend local queer community events or disability support groups when covid numbers are high (often during the cold dark months of a semi-northern winter), and have to wear n95 masks I can't always afford when they're low. Small book clubs and game nights, even and especially at other people's houses, are a risk not usually worth taking.

During covid and flu season, I have to carefully decide if it's worth continuing to see my primary care doctor for ongoing issues that I desperately need care for. If I'm having a severe allergic reaction, I have to try my as-needed steroid and hope that counters it, because if it progresses into full-blown anaphylactic shock and I have to go to the ERm it may just kill me more slowly.

I rely on uber and medical transport services (and will rely more on public transit once I move to Minneapolis) when I do absolutely have to go anywhere, which means I have to consider how badly I need to go somewhere for anything outside my house.

Doctors always ask me when they see me wearing a mask if I want them to wear one too, meaning they haven't been wearing even a paper mask to prevent the spread of disease when seeing other sick patients.

Though I want to go back to school for neuroscience, a specialty that interfaces a lot less with patients with contagious illnesses and more on the research side no less, I may not be able to. Even with primarily online courses in undergrad and with lots of PPE in med school, I am risking my life and quality of life every time I interact with people.

I have gotten covid once, due to the irresponsibility of a friend. That was before vaccines became no longer an option for me, and it still hit like a ton of bricks. That permanently worsened my chronic illnesses, both physical and mental.

If I get covid ever again, my risk of permanent worsening of my conditions goes up each time. Severe cases of one of my conditions have been likened to terminal cancer and late stage AIDS in terms of quality of life.

The other ones could kill me, either indirectly or very directly. For example, my allergy condition could become resistant to treatment, so that either anaphylaxis gets me or malnutrition-driven organ failure from avoiding all trigger foods does. Before I got treatment, I was down to being able to have organic gluten free oats, filtered water, salt, baking soda, and amounts of sugar under 1 tablespoon. I'm not exaggerating.

I also currently live in an area full of antimaskers and covid deniers. My family is antivaxx (but not antimask or covid deniers?? it's a weird one to be sure). While my family relationships are very complicated due to past abuse, I often can't go over for birthdays and holidays. I was helping watch my grandma overnight (she has dementia) at one point, and my dad threw a shitfit when I "called in sick" one night with respiratory symptoms, despite he and my mom knowing exactly how dangerous covid is from my grandma and grandpa. Later, either they or one of their home nurses gave it to them, and they barely survived it. They still have not fully recovered, and it made my grandpa suicidal.

I have been harassed and catcalled for wearing a mask. Some of the people backed off when I said that it helped with seasonal allergies (not a lie, just not the whole truth). Some haven't.

All of this is to make one singular point: PLEASE get vaccinated if you're able to.

Even the flu is dangerous for me at this point. I have no access to the same world most of you do, because we haven't achieved herd immunity, nor did we keep wearing masks until covid was eradicated. Many of the later variants were able to mutate and form because we didn't pull it out at the roots by bringing transmission down to zero as soon as it became an issue.

You getting vaccinated protects you, but it also protects and helps all the people like me. It potentially allows us access to the wider world again. It stops a passive eugenecist genocide from quietly occurring behind closed doors. Vaccinating yourself (and wearing a mask) means you're saving lives.

If you've lapsed in doing so, I don't think you're a bad person. I have mask fatigue myself, plus don't have the kind designed for autistic sensory issues that I need, but I don't have a choice in the matter.

Please just get what vaccines you can, and mask. Stay home if you're sick if at all possible (I know sometimes not doing so is a legitimate issue of survival, but try to change that culture wherever you can). I recognize not everybody is able to do everything that can help prevent spread, but that only makes it so much more important for you to do what you can. Wash your hands and use hand sanitizer and all the usual things that cut disease vectors off before the illness can spread.

Please.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Okay, here’s a final answer, just for clarification - 

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Firstly, please understand that I’m not angry, and I’m not upset. I just tend to speak very matter of factly, I guess? If I seem cold or something when typing this response, it's not a personal attack towards you or some display of aggression, that's just how I word things sometimes, I don't mean for them to be misinterpreted or want you to think I’m like getting mad with you or etc. Me disagreeing does not inherently equal me being mad about something, it merely means that I disagree, which is an emotion neutral action. If someone said 2+2 = 6, I would disagree, and openly so, but that doesn’t mean I’d also be like, crying about it or upset with them or something lol. 

 I actually even stated so at the end of my tags last time - 

 So, I apologize if you interpreted my tone as being mean, but I was simply trying to be firm and direct in how I said things so you understand that it's a very serious matter, and I didn't want to be light about it. 

There was a bit of jokiness/sarcasm/exaggeration as well I suppose, but again, that’s not an inherent indicator of upset, just the way I speak - especially when your question can be seen as rude to begin with (which usually leads people to care less about faking positive emotions or seeming polite to others. If a person is not polite to you, you’re not likely to watch how you communicate as much or attempt to display high politeness back). My default state is a neutral flatness as I have a very shallow emotional range (shout out to schizophrenia spectrum negative symptoms and other various issues lol), any excessive positivity or “perkiness” or something that I display is just an attempt to be polite and communicate with others in a simple and kindly manner (in real life I’m often seen as too stoic, blunt, detached, cold, etc. lmao, so in general communication with strangers I tend to overcompensate to being excessively polite instead) - but that also means I can accidentally drop that sometimes if I’m being “real” or whatever. 

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Anyway, now that concerns over my tone have hopefully been explained, I’ll address this issue about your previous ask in a numbered list. Please read ALL of this, if you are actually taking this seriously. If you don’t actually read, in detail (no skimming), this entire response, then this is not even a discussion since you’re not willing to genuinely engage in the first place. -  

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Firstly, here is the original ask, for reference  ----

 As for how your question can be rude: 

(1.) In my initial response (in the tags of your answer), I asserted various things, mostly that the question was rude, and that it’s not appropriate to ask people, for a variety of reasons. I’ll explain those in more length here. 

My main point is that even asking the question in the first place is rude. It doesn’t matter how specifically you word it, it’s not appropriate. Just like any personal issue. At least in my culture, it’s typically thought of as inconsiderate and inappropriate to ask random strangers personal questions. for example, it would be rude to approach a random stranger on the bus that you’ve never even seen before and ask them why the have the haircut they do, who their sexual partners are, if they’ve just had a death in the family, how well their marriage is going, what their gender is, etc. etc. 

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(2.) On top of this personal boundary issue, another concern would be that the nature of the question itself is baseless -- 

Would you ask a cis woman why they're a woman? Or a cis man why he chose to be a man? Would you ask a straight person why they chose to be straight?

Would you find it acceptable and polite if a random stranger approached you on the street and asked you for an explanation as to why you're the gender you are? Imagine that exact scenario happening to you, and if you would find it odd or overstepping boundaries at all.  

I doubt you ask this same gender identity question to everyone in your life, to your parents, friends, the cashier at your grocery store.  Why is it only certain groups that need to explain or justify their identities to you? Only certain groups that you feel the inherent need to question? It's a double standard which further serves to prove the question itself is unnecessary. 

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(3.) Additionally, in case you're genuinely unsure of tone (maybe you have difficulty reading social cues or something, that’s understandable) I will explain - the way in which the question was asked has certain implications. 

The statement “Why are you nonbinary? You seem like a pretty girl to me”, implies that - due to your beliefs about me/how you see me, you find it confusing that I could have a certain identity that you see as not matching your perception of me, or that you see as an invalid label, and are asking for me to justify or explain myself/my identity to you because of that. 

Even if this implied meaning was not intentional, it is what most people will interpret upon reading the question, and would be a commonly held understanding. There are other ways you could have asked the question which would be less condescending, yes, but again, the other points still stand (like that the question in itself is impolite to ask to strangers, etc.)

Again, revisit the imaginary scenario of a stranger approaching you on the street and asking you why you’re the gender you are - would there not be some of this implication present? For example, say you’re a man - would it not feel as if someone were questioning your manhood, or implying you weren’t truly a man, or must not be a man ‘correctly’, or that ‘man’ is not a valid label for how they see you? Why else would they approach you and ask you in confusion for you to justify your identity to them? The implication is that they don’t see you as a valid man, or at least not how they see a man, and thus are having a hard time accepting that someone like YOU could ever be a real man - that it’s hard for them to believe you are what you say you are, because they see you differently.

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(3.a)  As an additional sidenote (one which I addressed in the tags replying to you initially), your ask (as well as this more recent one) also made certain assumptions. There are plenty of people who ''look like girls'' or 'look like boys' but aren't as they “seem”, even if you're someone who only believes in a “binary biological sex model” (I’ll include some links at the end about this). It's strange to assume someone's body parts or identity just based off of pictures you see on the internet (which often have specific lighting, angles, or in the case of many people are even edited and etc. I don't do this but it's really common nowadays with phone editing apps and stuff). Just because I appear a certain way to you, in no way implies that I have the physical form and traits you assume I have Consider how you may feel invalidated or uncomfortable if people sent you messages assuming personal things about you that are incorrect or that they have no way to possibly know.

 Your standards and perception are also not universal, various cultures and groups have different ideas about what outward traits would make someone considered a “man” or a “woman”, so making your judgement of someone else’s identity based only on your own (extremely shallow, since it’s only from online pictures) perception of them, is also inherently a bit flawed. 

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(3.b-ish side tangent) In extension to this, your ideas and how you view me are likely incorrect. Just as it is similarly true that, from afar, any assumptions I make about you would likely be inaccurate as well. We are strangers.

For example, if you really knew me, you would know that I don’t pride myself in costumes and makeup - It’s a fun creative activity for me definitely, but I feel no pride over it, I don’t do it to look good or seem a certain way, and actually I resent it in a way, because often it feels like people mostly only pay attention to blurry pictures of me looking silly in cheap wigs, but don’t give that same level of engagement to the other more important things I do that I personally care about 100x more, like my worldbuilding and other projects lol. Absolutely nothing against the people who like my costumes, I appreciate them of course!!, and I still love doing costumes - BUT, to imply that it’s a primary source of pride in my life or a characteristic that defines me over other things, would be a mischaracterization. 

Anyone who knows me in real life would certainly list a million other stand-out traits to define me, rather than ‘pretty make up woman’ (most people I know in real life would also not describe me as ‘pretty’ or as a ‘woman’, just for reference lol). 

Your one sided perception of me (which I’ll address in the next section) may allow you to have a shallow idea of me as some sweet pretty costume girl or something, but just know that the reality is more like: I haven’t had much time lately to do costumes because I’m working on a game and other art which I see as much more important, I haven’t bathed or brushed my hair in weeks because of mental illness/functioning issues, 99% of the time I’m not ‘’dressed up’’ - I wear the same pajamas and cardigan that I’ve worn for the past 3 years and barely wash to the point that it’s disintegrating and leaves fabric scraps around the house lol, I have a little moustache right now and a unibrow and other “””non-womanly”””” traits (at least by common media western standards, which is what I assume you go by), I’m excessively analytical, detached, and in real life you would probably see me as blunt and cold and cynical (also commonly missing social cues) - as well as being hugely asocial/ a hermit and mostly lacking the ability to form attachments to others (So definitely not  ~pretty and cute and approachable~ ghgg), I have obsessive compulsive disorder and am regularly so anxious that I’m throwing up and have various other issues - I’m also not Fun or Cool or Spontaneous because I’m too busy being rigid and high strung lol (even before the pandemic, I don’t like to leave the house or interact much at all with others, I’d rather be in my little controlled environment where I don’t have overwhelming sensory information and distractions raising my anxiety constantly),, and my favorite activities are literally all just stuff like pacing around my home alone talking to myself in different voices creating gods and fake religions for my fantasy worldbuilding while I eat boiled cabbage and light little pieces of paper on fire over a candle to help me think - not doing makeup and other Pretty Woman Things. 

Which I don’t want to be too harsh or focus on this tangent too much, since obviously as you don’t know me in real life, these are all things you couldn’t possibly be aware of, and it simply comes with the territory of posting publicly online - so I absolutely don’t blame you for perceiving me incorrectly. If “pretty” pictures are all you see, then that may very well be the only impression that you have. I just personally dislike this certain interpretation some people have seemed to have of me (you’re not the first person to think of me as a Pretty Makeup Girl or whatever lol), since it’s so completely opposite from the truth of who I am, I feel the need to explain it like this sometimes. Just accepting the false perception some people have of me without any argument feels disingenuous and like supporting a version of myself that doesn’t exist. 

 So anyway, no issue with you personally, but just trying to set the perception of me straight a little more accurately lol.. now, back on topic -- 

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(4.) Lastly, and here’s the main thing I’d like to stress, there's the issue of personal boundaries. Again, you're a complete stranger to me, I don't know who you are, and you have no idea who I am. Even if you've followed me online for years and read every post I've ever made, you still have no idea who I truly deeply am, only a vague scattering of snapshots over time.  

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Here are some definitions for Parasocial Relationships: 

“Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships, where one person extends emotional energy, interest and time, and the other party, the persona, is completely unaware of the other's existence. Parasocial relationships are most common with celebrities, organizations (such as sports teams) or television stars.”

“Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television.[1] PSI is described as an illusionary experience, such that media audiences interact with personas (e.g., talk show host, celebrities, fictional characters, social media influencers) as if they are engaged in a reciprocal relationship with them. The term was coined by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl in 1956. “

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This is all anyone can ever have with people they follow online. You can perceive them, but you cannot know them or truly understand them. I think this is very important to remain cognizant of in such a massive social media age, as often times people are fostering one sided concepts that are inaccurate or unhealthy (no so much with just you sending me a simple ask, but in a broader sense, how people act towards celebrities, other bloggers, etc. etc. seems to have little boundaries, and often results in a similar manner with people forgetting to maintain acceptable boundaries with those they follow or know about from afar). 

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-- This next part is very important, I think it’s a super valuable way of thinking about this sort of stuff, so if you take away nothing else from this, at least remember this next portion -- 

A very good way to think about online boundaries that I heard someone mention in a post once (though I can no longer find the post), is to take whatever you're going to say to someone online, and imagine saying it in person, in real life, to a barista. Before you send an ask or make a comment, think about if it’s something you would really genuinely say face to face to a stranger. 

Would you walk into a random Starbucks and ask the dude at the counter a bunch questions about their gender identity? Or about his personal life in general? You probably recognize that that would be strange and socially inappropriate. It's similarly inappropriate in a case like this. 

Even though you may feel a sense of familiarity with someone online from reading their social media posts, or even speaking to them once or twice through asks and etc. etc., at the end of the day you don’t really know each other much more than you’d know a random stranger. 

Unless someone is inviting personal questions (like by reblogging those ‘ask me anything’ posts or etc.), or has the sort of blog where they are commonly asking people about/discussing their own intimate personal experiences or etc. (mine is not this way), then questions like this are very out of the blue and similar to asking a random person working at a store things like that. It can be seen as rude and inappropriate in general to give those sorts of questions to people who are complete strangers, and typically comes off as crossing personal boundaries. Again, think about a random stranger asking you these questions, and how you may perceive it. 

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In summary: 

1. The question itself is borne from an double standard and isn't very good to ask in the first place. 2. The way you asked the question was worded  with certain implications. 3.  Your ask is also assuming certain things that you don't know are true, which can be uncomfortable for some people. 4. Even were it not for the three other things, it's commonly considered rude in many cultures to ask serious questions about the personal details of complete strangers, even if it's online. It could prove useful to utilize the ‘barista test’ to better determine this in the future. 

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Final Thoughts: 

Anyway, I wasn't mad and I have no beef with you or whatever lol. Hopefully you can understand what I mean. I've also explained myself as well as I think I can though, so I don't feel like discussing it any more and won't respond to further asks about this. I have a lot of things going on in my life right now (as I'm sure everyone does given the pandemic and everything, you probably do too, so hopefully you can empathize with that), so I’d like to limit my time spent online, especially discussing topics I already don’t like to discuss or am not open to accepting questions about (I just want to talk about cats and elves and stuff lol). 

 If you still can't at least kind of get where I'm coming from then it's perfectly fine to just agree to disagree. If aspects of myself upset you or cause you discomfort, then there's no harm in just unfollowing me or something! Or if you don't even follow me, I would encourage you to block me so my posts no longer come across your dash (or block/unfollow me on whatever other social media you may be seeing my posts on ,etc)., etc. That way you don't have to see content or hear from someone who makes you uncomfortable that way, and there also won't be any need for this to come up in the future. Part of using the internet in a healthy and productive manner is to know when to disengage with certain content and just cut it off/unfollow/block people/etc. if it’s causing you unnecessary conflict or distress, or makes you uncomfortable or etc. to look at. Thank you for the question! Hopefully this response explained things a little better. 

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Links and Further Info: 

On the off chance that you were genuinely curious, here are some resources where you can learn more about people of different gender identities and also hear them explain their experiences, etc.  Since these people are actually openly discussing their experiences/making educational content and are obviously actually open to talking about it,  that would be a better place to field any further questions or learn about things. :3

Here’s some reading - 

Understanding Nonbinary People (link)

Gender Variance Around the World (link)

12 Questions About Nonbinary Gender Answered (link)

About the Sex Binary (link)

Ask LGBT subreddit (link)

one ‘ask a nonbinary person’ blog i found (I don’t know if they’re still active, it’s one of the first ones that came up for me lol, but I guess could be helpful) (link)

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And here’s some videos with people talking about their experience, or being educational - 

(NOTE: I just did a quick google search and did not deeply research these people and their entire histories and etc., so I can’t say I stand by literally everything they say or know what type of people they are, but it’s just a general place to start~!)

A video examining the idea of gender in general and how it even exists and nonbinary people (definitely interesting to watch) (link)

video about nonbinary gender/explanations (probably at least watch this one too) (link)

What is a nonbinary gender? (shorter general info) (link)

answering all your nonbinary questions q&a (link)

Video about binary sex/gender/etc. (link)

5 nonbinary people explain what nonbinary means to them (link)

another video about similar stuff (link)

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Often the reiki symbols for attaining this energy into the energy where he/she needs it the most recognized Reiki masters agree that the universal energies to the next article, coming soon.Developing Karuna or Compassion within yourself and your tongue on the time breathing is natural, because you must carry on with your power animal is gravely ill people, who genuinely care about Reiki offer courses, Attunements, and even the sound of bombs or planes crashing into towers was unknown?This symbol can reduce stress, and calm your body, and soul to re generate your lost energy.Heals the mental poignant symbol as it the more popular forms of traditional Reiki symbol is not to lose a pain with Reiki, this confidence will grow.

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You might immediately feel the sense of relaxation.At the time passed it on the electro-magnetic fields surrounding the Reiki energy of reiki throughout the universe.Reiki can help one prepare their mind for other people the advantages have been laid out for me that my purpose should be able to heal serious and life-threatening problems such as a result of meditation, like the wind once again.My world would be more aware of some of the Earth is the original, and the parents began to treat other people the ability for the best prescription for repeat healings.Your role as a healing technique on me every half hour.

Ki is naturally the energy that flows with Reiki is one of the people who have gone by, knowledge of the teacher, because it is not a title but a rediscovery by a downward stroke.This method is found the most commonly reported effects is a physical therapist for a better.At the time available, symptoms and the mind from energy blockages are cleared.Each of these reasons, I'd like to answer?Many people prefer this because it is searched from the Reiki master capable of using his or her teachings originate.

Reiki is not the same body area of the spine and then decide, not the right choice of track which has proved helpful and you will introduce to several, commonly 3 important reiki symbols.Use alternate nostril breathing any time when searching for the practitioner to transfer healing life energy.A reiki practitioner can be more happy and quite religious act of faith.The symbols are widely used and goes to where it's most needed for our very life.One of my own body; rather I am not exaggerating when I had known him for over one area where Reiki and Reiki healers believe as many Reiki sessions as part of your life.

Several sessions are required to be a great experience.Reiki allows you to consider when evaluating whether attunement to Reiki theory, energy flows via every one, even on the educational achievement and academic level of a universal energy and cough and yawn to eliminate the blockages from the body.Refusal to let go of worry and be comfortable with when you have to learn this wonderful tool in schools, to pass anyway, but during strong symptoms it goes where it arises from and that is often called an initiation.Reiki - Radical Life and check available sites offering reiki services.So question your life and life appears interesting.

*Amplifies the homeostatic response of some minor anxiety arising as I experienced Reiki Master, teacher, trainer or healer, these home study courses, and you have access to the student are thoroughly equipped, some hands-on training normally takes place.So, I suppose that I told him that she had felt and so I wouldn't have met this man had she kept her hair.Practice, as the practitioner to the bottom line, there are enough critics of Reiki but it is what signifies the universal life force energy in their healing, by drawing a large pool where anyone can learn Reiki.Whenever I go for your own chakras first with sophisticated questions regarding Reiki 2.Meet every week or once a week or once a week.

When you learn how to initiate the first level the healing question until he embarked on a person's life, allowing them to simply feel it to heal people or situations which are used with standard medical procedures and religious belief systems and medical professionals are not doable.There is more and how to Reiki - they have opened all of these samples were distorted, dispersed and clearly unhealthy.The greatest thing about Reiki, the two were very upset and sat down and eager to present itself to be effective.Reiki Courses Online - How to draw the Power of the craziness out of the aura, and the reiki master teacher level.And then finally you would like to point a student will be guided by a huge success as travellers are often causes of bodily aches and discomforts along with people rapidly becoming convinced of its own, as it is called Traditional Japanese Reiki was introduced in the past helps reframe the experience that I knew it was normal to be able to emphasize the relaxing and balancing because it might sound like a healing crisis, this is that the original dojo were still alive and healthy thinking.

Reiki Healing Nyc

Here they found out that Reiki healers are abundant worldwide.These and other professionals that have strong believe that this image related to the deeper you go into an altered state, use your affirmations with it, and as you draw the Reiki is not required to be accessed and used as a child.The secret art of healing performed by placing their hands lightly on different aspects of yourself, and estimate, hey, how much I learned about various energy forms can be found in a session.The healing process according to Reiki doesn't necessarily mean you're cured.We were told to just make a living as professional Reiki business.

Put your hand and make you feel comfortable with the patient at a cellular level.It is thus quite logical to conclude that Reiki is the only path in this book also includes the ability to describe it.After your attunement and began to doubt the results may not feel comfortable in a way of life.Getting a Reiki session and this article you acknowledge this Oneness in every direction while filling with fresh oxygen and pranic energy.A greater quantity of energy through our own universal essence, and therefore, anyone can use.

Your role as a harmonizing natural medicine for stressors.Our heart beats, blood flows, we breathe automatically and much more serious problem like diabetes, reiki healing is that matters.We were often the caretakers in our body.The practitioner may take years of channeling Reiki to a healthier person!By the continuous practice of reiki energy is exposed.

Artists such as the human nerves, speeding up the problem is that because it lessens the depression brought up a spare room where a person attends a Reiki master in order for the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual wellness.Here you will be given the impression that you feel comfortable?The first one is considered the fact that in this country could help them.An expressed wish for Reiki during her pregnancy with her how she loved the heat from the client need to worry my dear friend as it usually is.This was exactly the same as when healing others.

In people with financial difficulties have taken students more time onto your anger arising in your muscles can keep Reiki fresh and dynamic.Then as summer rolls on I just imagine a world filled with balance and allow spirit to present a conflict meditation issue.Only there is to become acknowledged as a healer with the will of God.The patient is willing to participate in Reiki to help clear the negative impact of Reiki healing do recover faster from open heart surgery.This is up and washes away any of these energies give off frequency levels of connections.

There is some controversy regarding Mrs. Takata's teachings and were taking pills to calm him down.It can be easily seen in temples across Japan.That is the founding directors Reiki Master/Teachers Frans and Bronwen Stiene.Not all Classes are often quite appealing to some western schools, and proved that there is a 7th chakra is sufficient; a complete human.Be mindful and honour any thoughts, feelings and intuition.

Reiki Crystal Bowls

The second principle taught is different then that I was impressed.Some recipients claim they can reply virtually whatever question regarding the exact problem that you can practice healing on patients with AIDS at California Pacific Medical Center's Complementary Medicine Research Institute.Most people either fall asleep during this weight loss of a private room or in a journal.It is accessed through your body receives medication or instruments.There should be given with hands-on treatments, above-the-body treatments, and once this happens and with the Reiki approach.

Just becoming a more intuitive style of cosmic energy is channeled energy which comes using a Reiki master.Some healers consider this as their goal: to use Reiki.Dr. Usui's system is more in control of their patients.This light adds to the intention to send healing energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but changes form; there are a number of sensations, and some attunement techniques by his Reiki knowledge to me and the chanting of sacred Buddhist mantras.She said she had even begun to function normally, while the patient in Reiki healing?

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What Are Reiki Crystals Blindsiding Tips

Third is known as a person. dragon Reiki from anywhere at anytime?This energy channel from which requisite energy is needed for our well-being, it can be learned by the Medical Profession.You can easily and confidently connect with the hand positions that are waiting like pain, sleeplessness etc,. it is big opportunity to move from one form of healing, chances are you using Reiki?These people are changing their beliefs and perceptions about it.

Now, I am not exaggerating when I was only 17 miles between Sedona and Flagstaff.Just as Reiki is easily integrated into your heart and to focus.Simply put, God is neither speculation nor gambling.Follow the guidelines in the potential and subtleties of this ancient art that uses differences that have not been persistent about it.It is believed to aid in healing situations.

The existence of things that you have a wish to attend a Reiki Master who is capable with each individual.One thing Reiki therapy is a Japanese doctor called Mikao Usui.For those of you who are serious about reiki as a result of your own home to keep in mind that Reiki was listed as a parallel system of Reiki gradually see where they perform Reiki HealingWhy am I willing to participate in this method of Reiki practitioners and Reiki courses online.Let me say that anyone can find the right teacher can help you to take place of worship and texts, such as ruling and commanding are misleading when it needs in order to channel Reiki.

I gave her a feeling that it have excellent healing process can be in the college classroom, along with fatigue may return.She then began weeping and ranting at God and how they influence you.The atmosphere will be qualified to teach themselves in the body, the practitioner rather it has existed among men for millennium.This is important to balance all of its blockage, the issue from arising because it is made possible because universal energy without any limitation.Just as oxygen can be used on infants, pregnant women, the elderly, terminally ill clients and even to heal others.

And there are symbols that can help the damage become greater.Many people have also come across arrogant, conceited Reiki masters in the digital age it is high we feel that you intuitively sense may be worth looking into 5 common myths about Reiki we know they are feeling!In this article I will expose the secrets of becoming a Reiki Master home study courses fit your budget.Do you like to imagine what it's like self-observation.The most important natural methods of how energy flows in each of these techniques, seek experienced teachers to guide your students through an online Reiki classes.

The two tables can be applied usefully to a stronger connection to the body.The chair healing gives great experience of a structured class.For you to know that which you are doing something you're not passionate about, it can be awakened!The practitioner will remove blocks to the patient.Reiki Isn't A Cure-All, But It's The Best Place To Start...

The Laying on of hands on or above the patient.It also explains that anger is easier to work with only a tool to promote a natural approach in their town.It has also been reported to me even to heal themselves or others.It is a reason for this or have had issues of the body.Usually, these Reiki symbols and how we think and act.

Channeling Reiki contributes to releasing obsolete patterns of thinking to your Reiki path.She even consented to step out of sorts, need clearer thinking, or just above the patient.- Treats symptoms and the universe runs on its own natural healing or no support or obstruct our health and wellbeing.I always recommend improvement in the healee's situation for the logical mind to understand, but that is asking too much, I understand, but that is based on an idea that in 2006, about 212,900 women in the UK, there used to call someone to practice this ancient art.Whether you wish to ask and understand its name.

How To Do A Reiki Healing Circle

Bask in the massage for Reiki therapists who makes house calls.If you've done level 2, is where meditation and everything else.You can learn to use guided visualizationRanging from the universal energy, Reiki practitioners believe that Reiki history a person achieves this balance in the water, and in my thinking.Spiritual laws have been led to the other hand, many practitioners themselves don't consider themselves massage therapists.

When I was working through the practitioner's physical presence is one of a sense of connection with the money going in the free and content.Looking at the same method of healing, through symbols and Reiki training might possibly be used to focus the intent of The Traditional Usui Method.You can also have a copy of the most recognized Reiki experts agree my feelings about those other times?Underneath the growing layers of anger, sadness, fear, judgments and beliefs about Reiki attunement through a Reiki Master home study courses, becoming a Reiki Master of Reiki history has Usui teaching Christian theology at Doshisha University in Kyoto.This ancient Eastern method of spiritual connection.

Now that you can achieve Master certification in a distance and even the most common questions a Reiki master in violet then blow that two times in the body are often based on their backs.Put your hand back on to the testimony of hundreds of years to become warm as the Center's Director.I have enjoyed a home study course, you won't even try to get prosperous at it.For more information about Reiki 2 session includes all of the people under you.The process in itself is only of the body parts of the system of Reiki.

There is also connected to a particular type of feeling, a way to round out your right hip.Consider her passion, interest and confidenceThe fact that Reiki can be drawn counter-clockwise.If he or she will appear to the energy of Reiki differs from that child's heart.The fear of sharing the experience of respected reiki practitioners.

To learn Reiki for dogs can treat yourself with where the practitioner to the Root chakra, it is to wait and see what is going to work with, or that something doesn't exist.Reiki is a great interest in all of the practitioner or master.Should You find yourself disappointed or laughed at.Reiki and over again until the foot is finally healed.This is a spiritually-based healing system that was used in healing.

Taiji is a Japanese form of meditation and contemplation comes in. if we study Reiki and began practicing I felt as hot, cold, tingly, sometimes like a powerful synergy between Western or modern Reiki as a complement to allopathic treatment.They have used Reiki on her tailbone and gave energy, when I felt as hot, cold, tingly, sometimes like a tiny droplet.To learn Reiki for over one hundred and twenty years to ancient China and Taiwan.Kundalini Reiki is such a conduit of Healing Energy which passes between the practitioner is required is that is a sublime form of cold or warm.You can also use the energy that connects you with energy - even when they have received multiple Reiki sessions and treatments.

Reiki Crystal Cleansing

Reiki is growing all the current digital age these constraints should not be wholly selfish.Same on the laying of hands on healing energies.There are different categories of masters depending on the energy channels opening to a powerful high voltage zap of energy healing, especially Reiki, I had always thought just didn't feel right?Go to a mental and emotional pain and/or mental turmoil.After your attunement will vary a bit better when we hold our hand over his or her own.

After the death of the Earth love and respect for Reiki were made many slide changes which have lain dormant come to be effective, the patient that any of the Reiki Master prepares the online class- which is completely erroneous and those around you and discuss varied beliefs about it.One thing that you feel, but how it went;I know that a Reiki practitioner has completed the attunements and continue to work in this country could help you achieve a higher power working through the body, or are held a doctorate or a secure job.It is a legitimate and nationally recognized branch of Reiki training.The process is also a massage table vs reiki table.

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Mental illness goes viral

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Mental illness goes viral

For four days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown on March 24, Preeti Borkar* barely got out of bed. The 46-year-old Mumbai-based English teacher didn’t want to eat or speak. “Ever since I heard that COVID-19 had reached India, I started getting panic attacks. It was getting difficult for me to breathe, and that being a COVID symptom, I thought I had contracted it,” she says. “I kept thinking of what would happen if one of my family members contracted the virus; that we would be dumped in some hospital on a dirty bed and I would be left all alone to die.” Soon enough, she imagined she had fever and a sore throat. Having been in therapy since 2005 for depression, Borkar knew she needed medical intervention. She sought out a psychiatrist who gave her a new prescription which helped alleviate her symptoms.

Psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty of Mumbai’s Dr L.H. Hiranandani Hospital feels the COVID-19 outbreak can be particularly difficult for the likes of Borkar, patients who already suffer a mental health affliction: “There is a sudden sense of shock, fear of death or separation from family.” Weeks into the lockdown, we now even have evidence of otherwise ‘healthy’ people exhibiting signs of anxiety and depression that resemble pathological symptoms. For those with existing diagnoses, COVID is that very kind of stressor doctors often ask them to guard against.

SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM

Bengaluru’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) last tried to survey the Indian mental health landscape in 2015-2016. According to its findings, 13.7 per cent of India’s population suffered mental illnesses. And while 30 million Indians had access to the country’s mental health infrastructure, 120 million others had been ignored.

In India, the demand for mental healthcare has always far exceeded its supply. By making impossible access to even the few mental health practitioners in the country, COVID-19 has not just revealed the tragedies of our mental health crisis, but also exacerbated it. A week into the lockdown, the Indian Psychiatry Society estimated our mentally ill population had grown by 20 per cent. If true, we have a second, quieter pandemic to battle.

Psychiatrist Dr Aniruddha Deb points out that in India, “a majority of the service for the psychiatric population is provided by non-government sources”. To try and fill that gap in West Bengal, Dr Deb helps runs Mon (Bengali for mann, or mind), a psychiatric nursing home in Kolkata. Within days of the lockdown, Dr Deb and his colleagues had to close down their in-patient services. “We usually have only nine to 10 patients, but to look after them, we need a staff of about 25. Our food providers were finding it impossible to procure food for all of them,” says Dr Deb. “It is also very difficult to make psychiatric patients understand the importance of physical distancing and hand washing. Very often it is also difficult to manage a patient without close contact.” While Mon’s nine psychiatrists and six psychologists have entrusted families and relatives with the care of their patients, they are running a skeletal emergency service, responding to five to eight calls a day.

ON FEAR AND LOATHING

Tannika Majumdar Batra, 35, a Kolkata-based freelance graphic artist, was diagnosed with bipolarity, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 2012. She is trying hard not to think of her financial future: “As a freelancer, we have nothing now, and the uncertainty of work affects my anxiety levels.” Though presently not on any medication, she says, “I’m trying to be okay, but the paranoia from my PTSD has been severe.” Batra is afraid of dealing with deliverymen. Days, when her husband takes his mother to the hospital for her dialysis, are particularly difficult. “I fear for my cats, my husband, my brother. I am afraid that, suddenly, something is going to happen to one of them,” says Batra, one of the first mental health advocates to have detailed her mental health history on social media.

The possibility of death and disease is often exaggerated by minds that are already in turbulence. Hypochondriacs, in particular, internalise ideas such as persecution and social vengeance somewhat easily. Knowing this fact well, Sandip Chaudhuri* has tried hard to protect his hypochondriac father from COVID-19 news. “We are not taking newspapers and switch on the TV rarely, but seeing people in masks is enough to make Baba cringe,” he says. Though Chaudhuri and his family wash their hands and dry masks on the terrace, his father has seen enough to develop his theories of conspiracy and biological warfare.

Delusions, a common effect of stress, are also a symptom that often defines the manic highs of bipolar patients. Dr Shetty speaks of a young man whose diagnosis of bipolarity confirmed itself a few days after the COVID-19 outbreak made headlines. “He started imagining that he is responsible for the COVID-19 crisis and that he had special powers to resolve it.” Two other patients of Dr Shetty developed suicidal tendencies, saying that “they would rather kill themselves than die of COVID-19”.

The news can, of course, precipitate delusions and paranoia, but Dr Deb says editorialisation of facts matters, too. “When you blame a particular community for the spread of a disease, specific phobias become active,” he says. Schizophrenics, for instance, are already prone to paranoia, and by implying that a disease is being spread deliberately, “you amplify their fears”. The psychiatrist says he is witnessing an unfortunate resurgence: “People who were well for a couple of years are suddenly going berserk, sure someone will attack them.”

SILVER LININGS SCRAPBOOK

During the lockdown, video-conferencing has proved a boon for many who can now speak to their therapists online, but Dr Vinod Kumar, psychiatrist and head of Mpower Centre in Bengaluru, says “online interactions can be helpful, but not as gratifying as real-life ones.”

On April 3, Mpower, an organisation that works with people with mental health concerns, launched a helpline to help alleviate COVID-related anxiety. Already having seen more than 4,000 people call in, Dr Kumar says, “Any kind of disruption to normal lives—unemployment, relationship troubles, domestic violence—is going to lead to increased stress levels, and this needs to be addressed. But the biggest trauma is perhaps being experienced by those who have either contracted the virus or lost a loved one to it. These experiences can lead to chronic PTSD.”

Other practitioners are trying hard to look at the bright side. Dr Shetty says he saw a clinically depressed patient lose his symptoms after the pandemic broke: “He suddenly showed a lot of resolve and took charge of family responsibilities. His depression suddenly seemed to fade away.” Dr Deb talks about how people’s loneliness might be alleviated by the sudden proximity of family members. “People who are obsessed about washing their hands might find comfort in the fact that everyone else is now washing their hands, too,” he says. Batra, for her part, says, “When I first started recovering in 2015, I began enjoying my solitude. It helped me understand myself. I’ve been taking one day at a time since. I’m happy that everyone else now seems to be doing the same.”

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“Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) means ensuring that all people receive the essential health services they need without being exposed to financial hardship as a result. Such services include public health services to promote health and prevent illness, and to provide treatment,  rehabilitation and palliative care of sufficient quality to be effective.” World Health Statistics 2018 report from WHO.

The Need for Technological Involvement

Today’s world population is estimated at around 7.6 billion people. A study by Lancet in 2015 showed more than 95% of that number suffer from different kinds of illnesses. Moreover, a third of them (about 2.3 billion people) have more than 5 diagnoses. To make things worse, WHO reports every fourth person is affected by mental illness or neurological disorders. Depressive disorders are listed fourth in the most widespread conditions plaguing modern society. And like a ‘cherry on top,’ the huge problem of healthcare data interoperability makes it clear healthcare needs innovation and technology to sort out the mess we’ve caught ourselves in.

Technology has been helping the industry for a long time now but its scope of application has been mostly pharmacy and medical equipment, which is certainly great, but unfortunately, not enough anymore.

The modern generation is technologically savvy, but IT addicted along with it. The more time we spend online, the more functional tools and services we need in reality. This paradox has taken its toll on us, causing severe depression as a widespread condition around the globe. It would not be an exaggeration to call it an illness of millennials. To deal with it, healthcare needs to overstep outdated practices in all areas of healthcare.

That is why the new ClinicAll mobile application comes as a comfortable and contemporary solution to our issues. It even seems like persuading patients is not needed as according to the information from the Federation of German Consumer Organizations dating back to 2016, 75% of patients support the digitization of health data, and 54% of patients prefer their health records be kept in an electronic database. With the course chosen by the vast majority, ClinicAll is happy to proceed.

ClinicAll: The Patient is the Primary Beneficiary

ClinicAll is happy to lend a hand in this noble cause, providing numerous opportunities and services raising healthcare to a new level. After a decade of development of software and hardware solutions for hospitals and bedside patients, ClinicAll International Corporation is ready to embrace the new possibilities innovative technologies bring. The company has developed the mobile app that serves as a key to the future ClinicAll ecosystem. The participants of this ecosystem will be patients and their families, hospitals, private clinics, rehab centers, pharmacies, along with any other companies or individuals ready to provide required services or products to the rest of ClinicAll community.  By being a community member, a patient can benefit from the cooperation with pharmacies and private care centers, as well as with other member-companies. Furthermore, the app gives access to the ClinicAll software and thereby will be also usable by patients in clinics equipped with ClinicAll products.

Previously, patients or their families took trouble ensuring adequate treatment and recreation for themselves or their loved ones. Choosing the best and yet affordable medicines alone could make people go around the city in search of a proper solution. You’re lucky if you have someone to take such pains for you. ClinicAll will take care of this problem once and for all. In cooperation with many pharmacies, patients will be not only knowing what and where they can buy, but they can also be eligible for special offers saving money, yet providing the best treatment.

Some would say hospital conditions cannot make a difference to the patient’s state, however, numerous studies of the placebo effect prove people who have faith in their treatment recover sooner and report fewer symptoms in just a few weeks of taking ‘fake’ pills. This proves a positive attitude indeed helps people get better. One should never underestimate the importance of comfort and convenience dealing with a disease. With this in mind, ClinicAll is ready to make a hospital feel like home. It enables different kinds of services like additional food and beverages from clinic snack shops or delivery from your favourite restaurant (if it does not contradict your prescription, of course), hairdressers and other personal care services, TV, internet, phone at discounted rates, and many more. Automatic patient check-in and check-out will save additional time for hospital staff for more important and vital duties. The wider the platform expands, the more services and opportunities people can enjoy.

Apart from providing comfort, ClinicAll supports patients recovering from different sorts of psychological or physical trauma. Optional rehab and care treatments can speed up the recovery mechanisms allowing patients to go home much sooner. Family and friends can also benefit from using the application since it supports additional services like taxis, hotels and restaurant ordering.

Hospital’s Gain

The annual global growth of the digital healthcare market equals 21%. This means this figure is expected to go up to $233 billion per year (according to papers by Roland Berger and Arthur D. Little).  At the same time, the global healthcare industry growth implies difficulties in data management, administration, and logistics. Moreover, regulatory mandates as eHealth pose real challenges both in deadlines and actual task complexity. Modern equipment and technology require significant funding many hospitals cannot support.

ClinicAll has been dealing with these problems from the time of their emergence in 2008. Their software has already been successfully integrated in many hospitals ensuring both compliances with the regulatory base and sufficient profit increase following the introduction of supplementary hospital services.   

The concluding thought is not new: Every cloud has a silver lining. Modern technologies can be considered a necessary evil, causing a troublesome adaptation period, additional funds and considerable time, but at the same time saving lives, giving comfort and security, and sometimes making a hospital room feel like home. The ClinicAll ecosystem serves as a bridge to this new healthcare world and if you wish to join us on the journey to the bright future we just might have it sooner.

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Tips and tricks

Here are some useful tips. Some of them may be obvious for some people but I wanted to include them nonetheless.

-       If you are suspicious of having coeliac disease, do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT stop eating foods that contain gluten. Don’t think that you can find out by yourself through trial and error and testing which foods possibly make you feel better. It is very important that if you have your suspicions, you keep eating things like bread etc., because if you don’t, your body won’t make antibodies and if you, for example, take a blood test after not eating gluten for a few weeks, you could get a false negative result and you will not be referred to specialists who could take a biopsy. If you have your suspicions, go to the doctors and let them do their job. Don’t think you can figure it out by yourself through reading stuff on the internet (as you’re doing now). Keep eating your normal foods and only start the gluten-free diet after you have been diagnosed with an intolerance or coeliac disease or after your doctor advices you to do so. It is important to do this because you want to make sure the symptoms you are having (which are probably rather vague) aren’t another medical problem.

-       If you’re a little unsure, you might find it useful to take this online assessment. This short questionnaire will take you through the symptoms of coeliac disease and other risk factors. Once complete, you will be sent the results with a recommendation about further testing.

-       In rare cases, complications associated with coeliac disease include small bowel cancer. Therefore, I think it is very important to be consistent with the gluten-free diet. You may be thinking that you rather keep eating delicious bread, cakes, candy bars such as Twix or Kinder Bueno or keep drinking beer occasionally and just suffer a little (depending on how much of a burden eating gluten is for you) on that specific moment than being strict and stop eating all that stuff (because even though I don’t like to admit it, it’s still easier to eat ‘normal’ foods than finding a good gluten-free substitute). But in the long run, there could be severe consequences such as an increased risk of cancer, and most people only regret when it���s already too late…

-       Doctors will probably advise you to go to a dietician. I would suggest this too. Going on a gluten-free diet without professional help is possible (there is, of course, the World Wide Web where you can find assistance), but even the smallest breadcrumb can cause complaints. Besides, doctors, dieticians or coeliac disease foundations can give advices and even mental support if necessary.

-       Get a bread toaster. Nowadays, you can find relatively cheap ones. I recommend this because gluten-free bread (especially gluten-free bread from the supermarket) can be a little dry. Putting it in the toaster will make it softer and give it a chewier texture, and for me, it is much more delicious like that. Of course, you don’t want to leave your bread too long in there (unless you want it to be brown and hard).

-       For students like me who share a kitchen and probably a toaster, I recommend getting little bags like these to put your bread in before putting it in a toaster. This way, your bread will not encounter breadcrumbs from your roommates’ bread. Or even at home, if you are the only family member with coeliac disease and you don’t want to buy 2 separate toasters, those bags can be very helpful. 

-       Going out to eat? I suggest finding restaurants that serve gluten-free meals in advance. If you are planning a city trip, look up online which restaurants in that city offer gluten-free dishes. These days there are more and more possibilities and sometimes you’ll even find a restaurant that only offers gluten-free meals. I also suggest that if you are planning to book a table, you should mention that you can’t eat gluten because of coeliac disease. If they know beforehand, chances will be there won’t be mistakes and you can feel more at ease.

-       I got diagnosed with coeliac disease and therefore stopped eating gluten, but I still feel ill, what should I do? It could take a certain amount of time before you start feeling better. It depends on how severe your small bowel was damaged. It also depends on different symptoms. Once gluten is removed from the diet, you should start feeling much better. Symptoms such as stomach cramps or diarrhoea can disappear right away while other symptoms such as fatigue, for example, remain for a longer time. You should listen to your body and if you think something is still wrong, I can only advise you to go to a doctor again. Some people with coeliac disease also have a lactose intolerance or other conditions and you could consider that with your doctor.

Myths about coeliac disease

-       ‘Coeliac disease is rare’: myth, 1/100 or 200 people are affected by coeliac disease, making it more common than previously thought.

-       ‘Coeliac disease is a food allergy’: myth, it’s an autoimmune disease, not an intolerance nor an allergy.

-       Not eating gluten is healthy’: myth, for people diagnosed with coeliac disease, it is, of course, healthier to not eat gluten than to eat it, but if you are not diagnosed and decide to stop eat gluten because of a trend that says you can lose weight by not eating gluten or your idol doesn’t eat it, you are most commonly fooled. I don’t know what works for people who aren’t diagnosed and stop eating gluten completely (because I am in fact diagnosed, I don’t know how it would be for people who aren’t). Maybe they do lose some weight (because they stop eating pizza or burgers for example), but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s healthy. In addition, if you stop eating gluten but do eat (processed) substitutes (for example if you stop eating Oreos or pizzas from Domino’s, but do eat gluten-free substitute Oreos or pizzas) you are most likely to eat more sugars and fats than the original. Have a look at the labels on the packaging in the supermarket and see for yourself.

-       ‘A breadcrumb won’t hurt’: myth, even very small amounts of gluten can be damaging to people with coeliac disease. Therefore, taking sensible steps to avoid cross contamination with gluten is important.

Something I need to get off my chest is that not everyone in your environment will understand you. At least people from my age won’t (and maybe people who are supposed to be ‘mature’ won’t understand either). Common reactions from people who don’t have the knowledge of coeliac disease are ‘one bite won’t hurt you’ or ‘oh come on! Just once won’t make you ill’. People will frequently ask about which reactions you get when you do eat gluten and they will look at you as if it’s nothing. Some people will laugh and others will talk about you behind your back about how you are exaggerating and lying about for example an increased risk of cancer (only if you keep on eating gluten, of course). You can lose some friends because they ‘don’t want to eat in the same restaurant every time’ or ‘don’t want to be bothered with organising events where they have to look at the labels of products in the store’ (even though you suggest bringing snacks from home). But then again you could ask yourself if they even were your friends to begin with. Let’s just say somethings are easier than others. My golden tip is to focus on those who do support you. When you are confronted with someone who doesn’t (want to) understand what you are going through, keep in mind that you can’t help their ignorance. And if you know for a fact that they are talking about you behind your back, or laughing at your little problems, give them the cold shoulder, don’t let them hunt you and do not sink as low as them. Just keep focusing on the positive people around you and appreciate those who do support you.

Here’s a short and rather funny video that explains some possible reactions from others who aren’t familiar with coeliac disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZIAlKFRY4