#ComplexDisease
The polite, liberal impulse to validate everyone’s personal feelings about their illness inadvertently leads to the propagation of BS narratives that harm the most vulnerable, severely ill patients.
Emily Mendenhall is too hubristic to acknowledge this.
#longcovid #complexdisease #patientadvocacy
Indeed, listening to the experiences of a patient pop. with varying degrees of severity is crucial to understanding the nature of said disease... until you realize that Emily’s in favor of legitimatizing ~nervous system regulation~ as a valid mode of healing LC.

open.substack.com/pub/emilymen...
Danger in a single story
What an incredible dialogue going on about psychologization.
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 AM
For sure; replication in larger, independent, #ME/CFS cohorts and follow-up with functional studies will be absolutely critical to test these hypotheses to confirm or refute variant effect and determine clinical relevance. The same is true for any such studies of #Rare variation in #ComplexDisease
January 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM