Where is her physician or immunologist giving support or credence to this "diagnosis"? If she has one I would think that would help others be more sensitive and she would even have a potential suit for discrimination for persons with disability - Till then I think this has deep psychosomatic roots
I've had multiple chemical sensitivity for 8 years now. I got it after an intestinal yeast infection from eating tons of sugar.
I'm a very critical thinker and I'm apathetic towards my exposure to chemicals. I don't get paranoid and imagine or create symptoms from anxiety or anything.
Most fragrances bother me, but I've found a few shampoos with fragrances that doesn't affect me at all. If I was a hypochondriac then I probably would feel symptoms from every fragrance.
i find it funny how people judge someone based on complete ignorance. I'm 26 y.o male with multiple chemical sensitivity. It is a very real and debilitating disease. Common causes are exposure to chemicals or severe mold exposures. There have been war veterans as well as the cleanup crews in NY after 9/11 that have been afflicted by this illness. It is a very real condition. People assuming it's anxiety or OCD would be better served to educate themselves before making uneducated assumptions.
If multiple chemical sensitivity was a real illness you would be able to tell the difference between a real chemical you claim to be allergic to and a fake chemical(e.g. distilled water) in a randomized, double blinded trial. Everytime this test has been conducted on people claiming to have MCS in the past they have been no better than random chance at picking real from fake stimulus. In other words, you may well be suffering from something but you need a shrink rather than a doctor.
The only "fake" here is the poster, obviously a toxic injury disinformation shill for the chemical and their associations, who is trying to undercut this story through slander. Toxic injuries kill people every day, often instantly. For those who survive, the poster would have you believe that only THINK that they are sick. How does this make any sense? Toxic injuries are real despite this attempt at disinformation and the armchair psychologists misdiagnosing OCD from afar.
I think that the kind of rhetoric the poster uses here,, as well as many of the responders is very unenlightened and insensitive. MCS/EI is a very real disease that puts the sufferer in an isolation hell, as well as facing life threatening reactions from things that don't cause others illness. It is very disabling. Why is it so difficult to comprehend that toxic chemicals could cause symptoms in the human organism? That the human body could tolerate only so much of unnatural toxins? Wake up.
@PeaceChannel711 It's difficult to accept that MCS is a real disease because MCS sufferers overwhelmingly respond only to chemicals with a strong smell, which has very little correlation with toxicity and because randomized, double blinded trials keep demonstrating that you people have no ability to detect the difference between exposure to real(what you claim to be sensitive to) and fake stimuli(e.g. distilled water). You may need help, but it is a shrink, not a doctor.
@humansaretheworld Indeed, it's not a mere phobia like being afraid of spiders or heights, it's a genuine mental illness. Letting "MCS" sufferers "inform" the researchers how "MCS" works is like letting the patients run the mad-house. Most, if not all, of these studies were done by or for governments. Like all deeply delusional people you brush away all the evidence as mere propaganda by impossibly large conspiracies and substitute your own fantasy world.
@humansaretheworld Double blinded studies prove that MCS sufferers don't respond to the common household chemicals they claim to, they respond to the belief that there are chemicals. The response is psychosomatic, just like electrosensitives.
@humansaretheworld It wasn't the general public who figured out that tobacco caused cancer, it was scientists doing properly controlled, double blinded studies. The public sided with the tobacco companies and ignored the evidence. You are the one siding with the tobacco CEOs, not I.
This is outright hate literature. Multiple hypersensitivity was on WHO's list of disabling diseases used by the UN Decade of Disabled. While journalists and bigots in medicine and elsewhere trash people with these problems, they are being killed every day in health care settings. Check out your area's stats on adverse drug reactions. Check out how many people are killed in eating disorder clinics without a thorough assessment for sensitivities. There are other high risk groups being killed.
They used to see fibromyalgia, PMS, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression were all in one's head too. Now they are recognized as real physical ailments. This woman may or may not be a drama queen, but I'd feel like sh|t warmed over if I accused her of doing all this for attention and it turned out she really was sick.
@mddawson1 The plastic doesn't have a smell. MCS sufferers overwhelmingly respond only to things which have a "strong chemical" smell and which look "not natural", not to things which are actually toxic. If you shred some lemon peel an MCS sufferer will likely not respond because lemons are natural. If you show them some dishwashing liquid containing limonene, the very same chemical that is part of natural lemon scent, they likely will respond because dishwasing liquid is "not natural".
i hate saying this, but...
FAKE AND GAY
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Where is her physician or immunologist giving support or credence to this "diagnosis"? If she has one I would think that would help others be more sensitive and she would even have a potential suit for discrimination for persons with disability - Till then I think this has deep psychosomatic roots
silentfades 1 year ago
you really are a fucker, Dr Buzzo!! a genuine fuck brain!
katzinspace 1 year ago
I've had multiple chemical sensitivity for 8 years now. I got it after an intestinal yeast infection from eating tons of sugar.
I'm a very critical thinker and I'm apathetic towards my exposure to chemicals. I don't get paranoid and imagine or create symptoms from anxiety or anything.
Most fragrances bother me, but I've found a few shampoos with fragrances that doesn't affect me at all. If I was a hypochondriac then I probably would feel symptoms from every fragrance.
PureLogic777 1 year ago
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PureLogic777 2 years ago
i find it funny how people judge someone based on complete ignorance. I'm 26 y.o male with multiple chemical sensitivity. It is a very real and debilitating disease. Common causes are exposure to chemicals or severe mold exposures. There have been war veterans as well as the cleanup crews in NY after 9/11 that have been afflicted by this illness. It is a very real condition. People assuming it's anxiety or OCD would be better served to educate themselves before making uneducated assumptions.
chuteboxe39 2 years ago
If multiple chemical sensitivity was a real illness you would be able to tell the difference between a real chemical you claim to be allergic to and a fake chemical(e.g. distilled water) in a randomized, double blinded trial. Everytime this test has been conducted on people claiming to have MCS in the past they have been no better than random chance at picking real from fake stimulus. In other words, you may well be suffering from something but you need a shrink rather than a doctor.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
The only "fake" here is the poster, obviously a toxic injury disinformation shill for the chemical and their associations, who is trying to undercut this story through slander. Toxic injuries kill people every day, often instantly. For those who survive, the poster would have you believe that only THINK that they are sick. How does this make any sense? Toxic injuries are real despite this attempt at disinformation and the armchair psychologists misdiagnosing OCD from afar.
Zladislaw 2 years ago
I think that the kind of rhetoric the poster uses here,, as well as many of the responders is very unenlightened and insensitive. MCS/EI is a very real disease that puts the sufferer in an isolation hell, as well as facing life threatening reactions from things that don't cause others illness. It is very disabling. Why is it so difficult to comprehend that toxic chemicals could cause symptoms in the human organism? That the human body could tolerate only so much of unnatural toxins? Wake up.
PeaceChannel711 2 years ago
@PeaceChannel711 It's difficult to accept that MCS is a real disease because MCS sufferers overwhelmingly respond only to chemicals with a strong smell, which has very little correlation with toxicity and because randomized, double blinded trials keep demonstrating that you people have no ability to detect the difference between exposure to real(what you claim to be sensitive to) and fake stimuli(e.g. distilled water). You may need help, but it is a shrink, not a doctor.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb Shrinks are no help because it is not a phobia.
You have no idea what you are talking about as you have swallowed
the chemical industry propaganda hook line and sinker. The studies you
quote were set up to disprove MCS and were done without the aid
of people with MCS to inform the researchers how MCS works.
humansaretheworld 1 year ago
@humansaretheworld Indeed, it's not a mere phobia like being afraid of spiders or heights, it's a genuine mental illness. Letting "MCS" sufferers "inform" the researchers how "MCS" works is like letting the patients run the mad-house. Most, if not all, of these studies were done by or for governments. Like all deeply delusional people you brush away all the evidence as mere propaganda by impossibly large conspiracies and substitute your own fantasy world.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb The mental illness is caused by
chemicals.
humansaretheworld 1 year ago
@humansaretheworld Double blinded studies prove that MCS sufferers don't respond to the common household chemicals they claim to, they respond to the belief that there are chemicals. The response is psychosomatic, just like electrosensitives.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb Whether a chemical is toxic to most people is
irrelevant. The problem is that a person with MCS reacts to the
chemical not that it causes cancer. You probably believed the 12
tobacco CEOs who said that tobacco is neither addictive nor
harmful to your health as you have swallowed the chemical industry
massive misinformation campaign. At some point so many people will be sick that the chemical industry can no longer deny the problem.
humansaretheworld 1 year ago
@humansaretheworld It wasn't the general public who figured out that tobacco caused cancer, it was scientists doing properly controlled, double blinded studies. The public sided with the tobacco companies and ignored the evidence. You are the one siding with the tobacco CEOs, not I.
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb I know hundreds of people with MCS and I have
yet to find one who was helped by a psychiatrist. If MCS was a delusion
then psychiatry should be of some help. Most MCS people I know would
be glad to know that it was a delusion so they could get some help.
How is it that you came to be familiar with MCS?
humansaretheworld 1 year ago
she needs therapy right away before she wastes the rest of her life in self imposed exile... it is OCD and anxiety..
SisterSunnshine 2 years ago
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It's got to be OCD or Anxiety disorder..
SisterSunnshine 3 years ago
Or some form of Hypochondria.
fedos 2 years ago
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It's OCD.
Lamonjello 3 years ago
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I think it's an acute form of OCD
kristenzbf 3 years ago
This is outright hate literature. Multiple hypersensitivity was on WHO's list of disabling diseases used by the UN Decade of Disabled. While journalists and bigots in medicine and elsewhere trash people with these problems, they are being killed every day in health care settings. Check out your area's stats on adverse drug reactions. Check out how many people are killed in eating disorder clinics without a thorough assessment for sensitivities. There are other high risk groups being killed.
liquidvisual 3 years ago
no life....Might as well die..
solutionsplease 3 years ago
Labored breathing, racing heart, dizziness....all classic symptoms of an anxiety disorder.
Skep155 3 years ago
They used to see fibromyalgia, PMS, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression were all in one's head too. Now they are recognized as real physical ailments. This woman may or may not be a drama queen, but I'd feel like sh|t warmed over if I accused her of doing all this for attention and it turned out she really was sick.
lesorciercalifornien 3 years ago 2
You think all the plastic she has put up would cause her a problem if she was really ill.
mddawson1 3 years ago 3
@mddawson1 The plastic doesn't have a smell. MCS sufferers overwhelmingly respond only to things which have a "strong chemical" smell and which look "not natural", not to things which are actually toxic. If you shred some lemon peel an MCS sufferer will likely not respond because lemons are natural. If you show them some dishwashing liquid containing limonene, the very same chemical that is part of natural lemon scent, they likely will respond because dishwasing liquid is "not natural".
soylentgreenb 1 year ago
@soylentgreenb Many people with MCS can not smell the chemicals
that make them sick. They only discover the chemical because they get
ill. I can not tolerate lemon scent or lemon peel. Whether the fume is
natural or not is irrelevant and whether one can smell it or not is irrelevant
but most people with MCS have heightened sense of smell to things they
react. Many fumes burn my eyes, burn my nasal passages, and give me
a migraine headache.
humansaretheworld 1 year ago