#i get why so many people with chronic illnesses are taken in by pseudoscience cause it offers an easy fix that real medicine won't give | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

celepeace · 2 years ago

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When you find a post/blog by someone who seems knowledgeable about your understudied chronic illness and you get hopeful that they might have advice for symptom management but then they start going into how using essential oils to "detoxify" your body can improve symptoms -_-

#like great i don't trust literally anything else you said now #it's the worst when the quack shit is tacked on at the end cause it gets you all hopeful for a moment #like man i just want ways to manage post-exertional malaise #i get why so many people with chronic illnesses are taken in by pseudoscience cause it offers an easy fix that real medicine won't give #and the people hawking it often give the appearance of listening to your woes more than most doctors do #but it's still frustrating #like no this isn't going to help you and may in fact make you worse. you've been scammed at best and lured into a pyramid scheme at worst #i never see any of these fucks properly warn people either that if you have pets you absolutely cannot use most of those products #i hate the term ''detox'' the most bc it's the most demonstrably bullshit one out there #like do you have a working liver and kidneys? congrats! you don't need detoxing #and if you don't well that's a big problem and you probably need an organ transplant #medical detoxing is called ''dialysis''

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