21/11/2025
đ One thing Professor Emeritus Dr. Paul Garner said that really stayed with me:
âThese conditions arenât separate boxes. They share overlapping brain networks.â
When youâre living inside chronic symptoms â ME/CFS, Long Covid, fibromyalgia, IBS, chronic pain â it can feel like youâre collecting diagnoses that each require a totally different explanation, a different treatment, a different version of yourself.
But as Dr. Garner shared, that fragmentation can pull you further away from the bigger picture.
Sometimes the most compassionate thing we can do is loosen the grip on labels and open the door to the idea that the nervous system might be involved. Not because your symptoms arenât real, and not because theyâre âin your head,â but because this understanding creates more ways back to safety, not fewer.
If youâre feeling lost between acronyms and opinions, this clip might give you a gentler, more spacious way to hold your experience.
đ Type âPaul Garnerâ into the search bar on my YouTube channel to watch the full interview.
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