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This is a cartoon with four sections The series is called ‘This Week in Disbelief’ In the first section and woman is saying - ‘Breast Cancer what are my choices?’ In the second a man is saying ‘Heart Disease -What are my choices?’ In the third section a woman is asking ‘Multiple Sclerosis - What are my choices?’ In the last section a woman Im bed is looking desperately at her phone and saying ‘ME/cfs - Is there a clinic in my country that won't torture me?’ At the bottom right Wise Cat (a cat wearing glasses who reads books) is saying - ‘Nope, they'll all kill you and then blame you’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Merry Festivities whatever your illness, disability, religion or mobility aid choice! 💙💙💙

#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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This Week in Disbelief... Title - ExhaustMEss is here again! There is an outline of a Xmas tree and inside are the words “It's not all in your head. Pace yourself, rest and if you feel a crash coming on - stay in bed Wise cat is on the right saying “Have a Restive Festive” The caption says ‘Wishing us all peace, quiet, and decent support in 2026’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames There is a woman (the author?) walking out from behind the cartoon saying ‘And take no sh*t’
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Wear a f*cking mask!
This Week in Disbelief... Title - Viral and post-viral illnesses can kill you A woman is lying dead in bed, and a voice from her dropped phone is saying ‘Hello? Hello…?’ The caption says “WEAR A MASK” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief There are four different people. The first person has Breast Cancer and is asking “What are my choices?” The second person has Heart Disease? They are asking “What are my choices?” The third person has Multiple Sclerosis. They are asking “What are my choices?” The last person has ME/cfs She is asking “Is there a clinic in my country that won't torture me?” Wise cat is replying “Nope, they'll all kill you and then blame you” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.

For goodness sake avoid the whole sh*tshow and WEAR A MASK
The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief... Heading - Viral and post-viral illnesses can kill you There is a picture of a young woman dead in bed. And a voice from her phone on the floor is saying “Hello? Hello...?” The caption says ‘WEAR A MASK’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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A virus may kill you quickly, but post-viral illness can destroy your family, your career, your bank balance, your trust in doctors,and ultimately it can take your life.

#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief... Heading - Viral and post-viral illnesses can kill you There is a picture of a young woman dead in bed. And a voice from her phone on the floor is saying “Hello? Hello...?” The caption says ‘WEAR A MASK’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
#MS #Lupus #Parkinsons #Cancers
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The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief... Heading - Viral and post-viral illnesses can kill you There is a picture of a young woman dead in bed. And a voice from her phone on the floor is saying “Hello? Hello...?” The caption says ‘WEAR A MASK’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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#Justice4ME
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The cartoon series is called - This Week in Disbelief Title - Why is #ME also called 'Chronic Fatigue' & treated as a psychological illness? A woman carrying a huge weight on her back labelled ‘PEM’ is saying “In the 1990s careerist psychiatrists said "ME is just laziness and depression...” Wise Cat is saying “Then they simply blamed the patients or parents when people died from their graded exercise regimes” Mouse is saying “Isn't that called culpabable homicide?” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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Title - This Week in Disbelief... Heading - Are junior doctors badly treated? There is an image of a wheelchair user facing a series of grim concrete steps. In trying to do so he has dropped his placard. His placard says ‘HEATING OR EATING’ He is saying - “I guess that depends on who you compare them to!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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And remember - if you get the post-viral conditions #LongCovid, or god forbid #ME, this is what you’re in for - ON TOP OF THE DEBILITATING ILLNESS WHICH IS WORSE THAN END STAGE CANCER
This is a cartoon strip with seven images and a caption at the top. The title is - How the Psychiatric Model of #ME works... The caption says - “In 1992, the Wessely School gave directions that in ME/CFS, the first duty of the doctor is to avoid legitimisation of symptoms; in 1994, ME was described as merely "a belief"; in 1996 recommendations werd made that no investigations should be performed to confirm the diagnosis and in 1999 patients with ME/CFS were referred to as "the undeserving sick". Box 1 - You're told you don't deserve help Box 2 aYour experience is being denied Box 3 - Your support network is s denigrated Box 4 - You can't leave your house Box 5 - You cannot trust the people closest to you Box 6 - You're afraid of dying but can't access healthcare On the right the infamous Wise Cat is saying “Has anyone else noticed that the psychiatric model of #ME is really just a form of COERCIVE CONTROL?” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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This is a cartoon/poster It says “Many doctors, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists are good people, just don't trust the ones who try to tell you that post-infectious illness is a mental health condition!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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#ME #LongCovid #Lyme #POTS #PEM #LivesWeCannotLive
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The cartoon is called ‘This week in disbelief….’ There are 3 boxes. In the first box is an image from the Guardian with the title ‘this week in The Guardian’. There is a photo of Wes Streeting Health secretary with the word “Wes Streeting calls the A ‘impossible’ and says they made ‘misleading’ claims In box 2 a woman is walking in the rain. She’s saying “Who’d have thought the BMA could be full of misguided careerists making misleading claims?” In Box 3 Wise Cat is saying sarcastically “Certainly not the 1.3m people with #ME being disabled and killed by shamefully misinformed doctors” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#ME #MEcfs #Chronicillness
#ChronicIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes
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There’s a picture of a prison with light streaming down from a very high window. At the bottom of the picture there are silhouettes of people - one with a walking stick, a child looking confused,someone bent over with exhaustion, a person using a power chair, someone sitting down, someone bent over and near collapse and someone lying on the ground holding their stomach. They are all moving towards a grave on the right hand side of the picture and atop the grave is a plague doctor in a mask The caption says “The Greatest MEdical Scandal” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
February 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Yup - I spent last Saturday on a glorious afternoon out with friends - got away with it for nearly 4 days, and then wham! #FanningTheFlames
#pwME #MEcfs #ME
There is an image of a young woman on the floor. She is being crushed by the letters P.E.M. and she is saying “Ooof”
January 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#PEM is the defining characteristic of #ME and of post-infectious conditions and it’s really flattened me this week. Ugh!
There is an image of a young woman on the floor. She is being crushed by the letters P.E.M. and she is saying “Ooof” The caption above says “Today is a day for horizontal bad-assery…” The caption below says “…the BPS model of #ME is an elaborate web of utter bullshit”” The cartoon is made by #FanningTheFlames
January 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Repurpose some drugs and I’ll be out of the door in no time (well ok maybe it will take me a couple of hours)
There is a woman dressed like a scarecrow who’s putting a hat on her head. The caption says “Treatments? Let me get my hat on and I’ll be ready!” It’s made by #FanningTheFlames
January 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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And doctors are still out of touch. Grrrr.

#IYKYK
#ChronicIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes #WheelchairUsers #PEM
#ME #MEcfs #LC #POTS #MCAS #InvisibleIllness #Fibromyalgia #LymeDisease
#PostInfectiousIllness
Heading - ‘Still no Cochrane Review then?’ In the picture a rabbit is talking to the Mad Hatter. The rabbit is looking worried and saying ‘are you ever going to produce a Cochrane Review of GET?’ The Mad Hatter is waving his left hand around dismissively and has a superior look on his face. He’s saying “my dear chap, we don’t even read the science” At the bottom the caption says “Mis-information isn’t just corruption, it’s also sheer laziness” The cartoon creator is #FanningTheFlames
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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You might enjoy my new cartoon series about Simon Wessely going into space to find the source of the #IllnessBeliefs which fall to earth and cause #POTS #PEM
The heading says - ‘‘Wessely, King at Kings, heads into space to find something…’ Four women of different nationalities are talking. Simon Wessely is in a rocket flying overhead The woman on the left is saying “I see another annoying white man has launched himself into space” The second woman is saying “Oh dear, wisdom has been at his heels for decades” The third woman is saying “Well, it’s never going to catch him now!” The caption says ‘More adventures tomorrow’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
March 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#JDVance #Fascism #GangsterFascisn #Farage
#wanker
The image is of the Ant Hill Mob car from Wacky Races with Dick Dastardly sneaking into the picture on the right hand side. The title says - Gangster Fascism… The caption says- this von Ribbentrop has fallen in love with the Cotswolds (instead of St Ives There’s an arrow pointing to Dick Dastardly which says- ‘Farage had to be there obvs’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
August 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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#ME #Disability #PEM #FanningTheFlames
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This is a cartoon pretending to be a shop coupon. There is an image of a cat wearing glasses and reading books. Round the cat’s neck is a pendant with the words “Wise Cat” The title says - “Do you suffer from outdated prejudices about #ME and #Long Covid?” Wise Cat is saying “Stuff those prejudices down and see if you can squeeze a thought into the gap - here’s a link”. The link is - https://meassociation.org.uk Round the outside of the cartoon is a dotted line with scissors on it and the words ‘cut out and keep for those annoying relatives/friends/doctors’ The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Oh yes. Same here this week but improving now - being exhausted is exhausting. But I’m never too exhausted for making a sarcastic cartoon whilst confined to bed

#IYKYK
#ChronicIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes #PEM
#ME #MEcfs #LC #POTS #MCAS #InvisibleIllness #LymeDisease
#PostInfectiousIllness
Two skeletons are shaking hands and laughing. The one on the left is saying “What killed us was the prioritising of unsubstantiated philosophy over science” The skeleton on the right is saying “Let’s not forget the overlays of power and performative cruelty” At the bottom is a cartoon of the author saying “Or we could take down the BPS model of organic illness BEFORE it kills is” The cartoon was made by #FanningTheFlames
January 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I’ll definitely be making a cartoon/meme out of it for #FanningTheFlames
November 15, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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Yup 💙- I did that for 15yrs and out of it came textile art, #FanningTheFlames cartoons, and in the last year a new relationship. Definitely a better life than before 2009 - despite my having an energy limiting illness. #PutYourselfFirst
February 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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There is a fake photo of Starmer and Trump in bed together. Starmer is saying ‘it’s more comfortable than I expected’ The heading says “Will Starmer capitulate?” The cartoon is by #FanningTheFlames
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#EpsteinFiles #FanningTheFlames #conspiracy #TrumpIsGuilty
July 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM