The Rise of Environmental Illness

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Over fifty million Americans endure environmental illnesses that render them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staple goods from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. With over 85,000 chemicals in the environment, they perceive danger around every corner.
Freelance journalist Oliver Broudy explores environmental toxicity and the community of The Sensitives - people with powerful, puzzling symptoms they believe to be resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on “normals.”
Dr. Ann McCampbell, (DrAnnMcC@gmail.com) a Santa Fe, New Mexico based environmental illness medical advocate joins the conversation, along with psychotherapist and spiritual teacher Stephan Bodian.
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@davidwavidshmavider 2 жыл бұрын

I think some suicide because of depression as a result of isolation. But some commit suicide because they’re too sick to carryon, and existence is a complete living hell.

@zap... Жыл бұрын

How much suffering will the planet have to endure before corporations stop polluting our environment?

@sandramiller2934 5 ай бұрын

...at another job, I held for four years or so, three of us I an office with five or six women, three of us got covid. The office manager died. I was offered the job, and we were cleaning up Amber's work area and I found all these notes that she had the other girls keep about me! One was about the cleaner that was used in the public restroom. The purple stuff that is absolutely god-awful. One day I went in to use the bathroom and it made my lungs and sinuses burn and my eyes water. On one of the notes my coworker wrote, admitting it was very strong and made her a little ill. My current job is I an industrial area, with a fire alarm company. I'm on day 4.5 of "recovery". And of course they are denying that anything in the warehouse is causing my ailment to be worsened.

@selagu-go4634 2 жыл бұрын

Furthermore urban life, pollution, toxicity and the narcotics crisis is not helping human beings when this is happening within the confines of our own housing environment. I am from Los Angeles and I watched the movie Safe released in 1995 with Julianne Moore and I could relate. What a sad world we are creating.

@traceykerr572 3 ай бұрын

I have multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. Was 100% normal doing a PhD in kinesiology competing an Iron Man triathlons around the world. And I was in a serious car accident. Doctors gave me over 200 different medication‘s because they didn’t realize I had a pituitary injury that caused a rare condition. All the medication‘s they gave me caused my immune system my IgG’s and my IGA became low and I became chemically sensitive from the time I spent in the hospital and from The treatments. And now I’m intolerant of fragrances and many other chemicals that I didn’t have a problem with before. People can get their immuno gammaglobulin measured and if they’re very low they can do immune therapy to try and help. But avoidance to exposure is KEY as well to not trigger a negative medical cascade.

@sandramiller2934 5 ай бұрын

I'm sensitive to perfume (Febreeze and laundry scent boosters just annhialate me!), exhaust fumes, cleaners, and the list goes on. I've been mocked and tormented by co-workers and bosses (although there was a "rule" that scented candles, etc was forbidden, EVERY morning I had to walk down a long hallway past many offices that had sooo much perfume coming out the doorways I could taste it, yet they did nothing. They would claim they couldn't smell anything. So, gaslighting was another way I was discriminated against.

@selagu-go4634 2 жыл бұрын

I was diagnosed with "IBS" in my college years and it took a toll on my entire life. Now that I am 45, doctors are realizing I have allergies to the environment. It's been so difficult, especially with family and friends doubting me. I had to become a vegetarian for 6 years which helped but now I know the polluted environment brought on the triggers. A G.I. doctor and social security doctor finally realized I'm hypersensitive and highly allergic, they were helpful and said I will need counseling.

@davidwavidshmavider 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve definitely had organic food that wasn’t organic. Probably a farm downwind from a conventional farm.