I'm a Computer Science undergraduate in my final year studying at Reading University. I like music, movies, photography, reading and if I can ever get around to it, writing. Also a fan of horror, sci-fi and fantasy so there's plenty of re/blogging on those areas.
I write gig/event reviews at From The Pit
Currently conducting my Serotonin Experiment in a last ditch attempt to hopefully alleviate the symptoms of CFS/ME.
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poor doctor
Doctor Who Season 6: A Skit
#note: if you loved series 6 don’t watch it #you might get...
friend: 10 people have asked to be my valentine
me: sometimes i meow at cats and they meow back
this will forever be one of my favourite lines that Ten ever said
that awkward moment when the doctor quotes...
I wish there was more support in general for people with ME/CFS.
About the extent of it is “Here try these tablets and if you don’t die in the mean time come back and see me in a month.”
We don’t get offered counseling, any kind of therapy eg. art therapy, no support groups, no nothing.
I don’t know if that’s the case for everywhere else, but where I live it seems to be.
I can dream.
The main “treatment” offered here in the UK is CBT but it’s not really what I need and doesn’t treat the symptoms. Forget about “counselling”. Just develop a proper treatment or medication to make the symptoms go away.
The main “treatment” offered here...CBT but it’s not really what I need