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Monday, 24 November 2014

apparently I hate myself

so a few days ago I came across this article

if you don't want to bother reading it and believe me it's a waste of a few minutes. It's basically summed up as I got hypothyroidism , pernicious anaemia and type 1 diabetes because I hated myself. Oh, and you can spot 'autoimmune types' by 'They have an intensity about them, a desire to impress. They’re always the ones at the front of my lectures, frantically taking notes. They have an air of ‘I'm not good enough as I am’.' 

Should I show you what I looked like at my type 1 diagnosis? 



I was a baby. I certainly wasn't looking to impress anyone clearly nor was I overly ambitious. Think my greatest ambition at that point was how much ice cream I could get in my mouth and I didn't even have the capacity to hate myself. 

Stress obviously plays a part in how I manage my conditions and it can make them more difficult to manage but its so dangerous and utterly stupid to suggest that self loathing is what causes them. If the worlds top researchers have still not figured out the cause for a condition that was first described in the ancient Egyptian period then a self professed 'healer to the stars' with absolutely no evidence to back the claims up  hasn't either. 

It genuinely annoys me that people who could raise awareness of these conditions thanks to their 'celebrity status' (and in her case I use that term loosely)  instead use them as a way to promote their latest diet (no sugar is hers , another article was a vegan diet) and utterly dangerous ideas. No the majority of us were not sitting there agreeing with you. We were absolutely disgusted and appalled that you trivialised such devastating conditions and laid the blame firmly at the doors of people who could do nothing to prevent it.

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