katherinerjohnson
Joined Aug 2016
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This show markets itself as bringing awareness to the struggles of people living with chronic illnesses, but it seems like this series was actually made specifically to undermine the credibility of people who suffer those illnesses. This show is full of people with very real and well documented conditions (like lyme disease and dystonia), and others with scientific evidence of toxic levels of exposure to mold, gas, and other pollutants, and portrays all the conditions as psychosomatic and all the people as delusional, attention seeking, and manipulative.
Yes, psychosomatic illnesses are a thing, and there are awful people in any group, but this show leans heavily on a false equivalence to create this impression. For instance, one person is shown getting a VNG -- a common and well established test for neurological and vestibular conditions -- and places it next to someone reciting random "codes" for energy healing, and someone else being "detoxed" with magnets. The show does this without distinguishing in any way between those tests and treatments with proven efficacy vs. the scammy, woo-woo BS.
It also repeatedly conflates psychological and neurological. Diseases of the brain and nervous system are not the same as mental illness, yet the two ideas are used interchangeably throughout the series.
This show has the potential to do real harm to people suffering from chronic illnesses. Don't waste your time on it.
Yes, psychosomatic illnesses are a thing, and there are awful people in any group, but this show leans heavily on a false equivalence to create this impression. For instance, one person is shown getting a VNG -- a common and well established test for neurological and vestibular conditions -- and places it next to someone reciting random "codes" for energy healing, and someone else being "detoxed" with magnets. The show does this without distinguishing in any way between those tests and treatments with proven efficacy vs. the scammy, woo-woo BS.
It also repeatedly conflates psychological and neurological. Diseases of the brain and nervous system are not the same as mental illness, yet the two ideas are used interchangeably throughout the series.
This show has the potential to do real harm to people suffering from chronic illnesses. Don't waste your time on it.