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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup. I always know what symptoms I’m experiencing, I just don’t always know what to attribute them to. Is it one of my diagnosed illnesses acting up, or a new passing illness, or a new Chronic Illness, etc. that I’ll have to add to the list? Frustrating & scary. Sorry you’re sick with Influenza.☹️

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve decided to start calling my house The Fortress of Solitude.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Most people will go their whole life without meeting an angry bear who also knows karate. I hope you are among them, friend.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I keep thinking that I just need to get a better handle on things and find improvements to my daily struggles. I need to catch up and find a more realistic daily survival routine that I can actually accomplish. Then I might have some energy for “extras”, including photography. My camera is waiting!

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ve had a lot of health setbacks that I’m currently struggling through. Every day that I’m not bedridden, my energy is spent doing basic daily survival tasks. Trying to get my head above water for long enough to take a breath before I sink back down. My camera has been by my front door for months.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love Nature & Wildlife Photography. ❤️ I love looking at your photos, and taking and posting my own photos. My health problems keep me very limited, but I have a cool yard with great photo opportunities, if I can just get outside with my camera. I haven’t been able to do that for over a year. 😔📷

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disability can be incredibly lonely, and I often wish sometimes that I had someone, but then I remember that someone else's ableism is really hard to manage, and I'm okay on my own. It's okay to choose yourself as a disabled person.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel exactly the same way. It is one of the main reasons that I gave up on relationships and quit dating. Also, I no longer try to meet people and make new friends IRL. I’m not very socially active anymore. It does get lonely sometimes, but I’m okay on my own.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A phrase that has become common for me, for a variety of unpleasant reasons: “I can’t ‘Brain’ today.” 🥴 IYKYK #ME/CFS #Fibromyalgia #Brainfog #Fibrofog #Migraine #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Disability

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes! The misunderstanding is so frustrating, and harmful. It feels a little surreal sometimes to be experiencing that level of fatigue. On top of that, to have others brush it off as something not as serious, debilitating, and excruciating as it actually is… Like, how is this happening?! Ugh! 😩

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TheGlovemeister Raising Awareness For Fibromyalgia xxxx @marting8177.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hi all, my wife Tina is in palliative care 24/7 at home by myself with Doctors and nurses when she needs them and we are asking for prayers 🙏❤️🙏 and miracle to keep her strong and alive. Please share this post far and wide. Thank you so much! Martin and Tina xxxxxx ❤️ xxxxxxx

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Sending Healing Prayers with Golden Cross

ALT: Sending Healing Prayers with Golden Cross

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Credit to themsbloke. A high-energy video that might require pacing! He has multiple sclerosis himself rather than ME/CFS. Note that the F word is used. #MEcfs #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It can be heartbreaking to have more ambition than energy

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I woke up and looked out the window to greet the day. (Yes, it’s past noon, I have sleep disorders 🥴). Saw a Robin having a soak in the birdbath, and a Squirrel doing parkour on trees & stumps. I love that my yard is full of critters doing critter stuff. They’re part of my housebound entertainment.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Post you from a different era in your life. Around 15 years ago. - Up in the air as a passenger on a powered paraflite ride. Loved it! - At my favorite beach on Lake Michigan. That was the last time I was there.

Me with a helmet and sunglasses on and a smile in my face, because I was so happy to be flying up in the air as a passenger in a powered paraflite ride.

Me sitting on the beach with sunglasses on. With the sandy beach, Lake Michigan, and the sky in the background.

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One thing anyone can do in solidarity with people with Severe ME is to help bring us into the public consciousness by checking out and sharing the Sundance-premiered, Oscar-shortlisted doc UNREST, free on YT. A love story and rare glimpse at people so ill with ME that you’ll never see us in public.

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UNREST Feature Documentary (With Captions and Multilingual Subtitles)

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m glad to hear that it’s gotten a lot easier. I can’t imagine how hard it was before the internet. Before I found information and the ME/CFS community online, I was SO lost. I had finally been diagnosed, but still spent years after diagnosis sitting around not knowing what that diagnosis meant.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Same- I don’t know anybody who knows anybody with ME/CFS. I am always the only one with it AND the only one they know with it. I’m the only IRL representation of a #pwme to everyone I interact with in person. And I “Don’t Look Sick”. So it’s often not a positive experience for me when it comes up.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’ve been burned a lot when sharing about it. I struggle between wanting to just keep quiet to avoid how miserably my attempts may backfire and create harmful misunderstandings, and thinking it’s worth it because planting a seed of knowledge could potentially help them or someone they know someday.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That’s gotta be hard to have someone in your grasp who could potentially understand you and connect with your experiences, but won’t. 😔

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I know it’s possible that I have come across people with ME/CFS, and they either didn’t know they had it or didn’t tell me. And alone is hard. But I do realize that a horrible downside to not being the only one with it means people in your real life, who you likely deeply care about, are suffering.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’ve had ME/CFS for decades. I’ve NEVER met another person in real life with ME/CFS. I live my life as the only one with ME/CFS in ALL of my real life interactions. That’s been hard. I only know so much about other #pwme because of the internet. Is it common for you to be the only one IRL too?

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I’m mostly housebound, but I get out occasionally for appointments and groceries. Here is a Short video from my drive home after picking up groceries last week. It was a beautiful day for a ride. Sharing for fellow armchair travelers ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/FumZj...

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Summer Drive in Michigan

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When disability happens to you, you won’t be able to just “try harder”. The social supports you think magically appear? They won’t show up. The medical system will let you down. Friends & family will abandon you. You will realize disability advocates were right all along.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

To be fair, I am also supportive and cheer Steve on. I even occasionally clap with pride and gratitude when he does a good job with an obstacle. So I am not just a big meanie. My interactions with my robot vacuum are usually well balanced. Just not lately.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’ve been yelling at my robot vacuum a lot lately. He (Steve McClean) seems to get confused more often now when attempting to adapt to furniture rearrangements and map changes. I live alone and keep yelling out, “WTF Steve?! Get your sh*t together!”. That’s probably confusing to the neighbors.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Disability is not a vacation. It’s a 24/7 job You’re forced into legislated poverty You have to endure ableism, abandonment and constant gaslighting You live with pain & suffering that would send most folks to the hospital. You fight for medical care, social supports & dignity. It’s not easy.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

That’s a bummer! I wish it would have worked out for you.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

George Monbiot describes the treatment of #MECFS as “The Greatest Medical Scandal of the 21st century”. Repost of the introduction to my 27-minute explainer video for #MEAwarenessMonth — now optimised for phones.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yes, your experience is a hard way to learn about that! 🥴

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A Chronic Voice @achronicvoice.com · 16/05/2026

"In short, a #Physiotherapist (PT) aids a patient with physical rehabilitation. An #OccupationalTherapist (OT) on the other hand, teaches them how to execute everyday tasks following a physical impairment.": buff.ly/uSfX3oJ #physiotherapy #OccupationalTherapy #disability #surgery #KneeSurgery

What’s the difference? Physical vs Occupational Therapy — Learn More in the Knee Surgery and Recovery Series on the Blog, A Chronic Voice .com.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I was an Occupational Therapy Assistant until I became too ill to work (many years ago). There are so many benefits that Occupational Therapy can provide. I believe it was valuable work, and was proud to do it. As your experience in this post shows, it takes a variety of helpers to get through it.

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It’s been so long since I’ve been able to remember the feeling of being alive, free, and hopeful in a healthier body. It was a lighter feeling than chronically ill life is now. The smell of today’s fresh spring air kept briefly taking me back to better springtimes from my past, and it felt SO nice.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Powerful testimony on #MECFS by Emma Shorter in the Scottish Parliament from 2018 “It turns fit and active people into ghosts… I know teachers who can’t teach, children who can’t play, and parents who can no longer hold their children.”

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Oh, so it’s not just a quirky left-hander thing! Hmmm

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There was all kinds of drama going on between the crows and the squirrels yesterday and I was awfully grateful to be a casual observer and not a participant

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Medically Induced Hermit @fallsthroughcracks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’m left-handed, but I can only snap my fingers on my right hand. This confuses me. I feel like since I have better fine motor control with my left hand, it should not be the Dud in this finger snapping situation.

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