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Kate Sheridan

  • Researcher, Freelance
  • Collections Assistant, New York University, Division of Libraries
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Long COVID patients are told symptoms are in their head—here's how to change the narrative

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By Kate Sheridan, Sarahjane Belton, Gaby Clark Verified
| Medical Xpress Verified
Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels Between us, we bring two perspectives to persistent illness: personal experience of long COVID and clinical and research experience in chronic illness rehabilitation. Both perspectives have taught us the same thing: When symptoms are real, disabling and difficult to explain, patients need more than reassurance that tests are normal. They need to be believed, assessed carefully and offered ways to make sense of what is happening in their bodies.
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Africa: Long Covid Patients Are Told Symptoms Are in Their Head - Here's How to Change the Narrative Original

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By Kate Sheridan, Sarahjane Belton
| AllAfrica
Between us, we bring two perspectives to persistent illness: personal experience of long COVID, and clinical and research experience in chronic illness rehabilitation. Both have taught us the same thing: when symptoms are real, disabling and difficult to explain, patients need more than reassurance that tests are normal. They need to be believed, assessed carefully and offered ways to make sense of what is happening in their bodies. One of us, Sarahjane, knows this personally.
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Long COVID patients are told symptoms are in their head – here’s how to change the narrative

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By Kate Sheridan
| Inkl
Daisy Daisy/Shutterstock Between us, we bring two perspectives to persistent illness: personal experience of long COVID, and clinical and research experience in chronic illness rehabilitation. Both have taught us the same thing: when symptoms are real, disabling and difficult to explain, patients need more than reassurance that tests are normal. They need to be believed, assessed carefully and offered ways to make sense of what is happening in their bodies.
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