๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ Dispatch | 12 January 2025
EXHAUSTION IS A MEDICAL CONDITION, NOT A CHARACTER FLAW
๐ Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
✒️ Author: Polly Chromatic
๐ Filed Under: Muscle Tension Dysphonia · Eosinophilic Asthma · Panic Disorder · Verbal Access Denied · Invisible Illness Prejudice · SWANK Medical Boundaries Archive
To the Recipients of My Silence:
Glen Peache, Sarah Newman, Eric Wedge-Bull, Kirsty Hornal, Rhiannon Hodgson, Fiona Dias-Saxena, Rachel Pullen, Milena Abdula-Gomes, Samira Issa, Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi
Cc: aaforbes@gov.tc, alsmith@gov.tc, Annabelle Kapoor, Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara, Harley Street Mental Health
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson
๐ซ The Diagnoses You Glance At But Never Grasp
“I’m really struggling with my muscle dysphonia, eosinophilic asthma, and panic attacks…”
These are not feelings. They are documented, indexed, and clinically observed medical realities.
But to you, exhaustion is an attitude, not a pathology. Vocal injury is “tone.” Asthma is “stress.”
And trauma? Something you perform seminars on while triggering it live.
๐ Vocal Rest Is Not a Mood. It Is a Prescription.
“...sometimes taking over a week to recover enough to talk and breathe comfortably again.”
Silence is not opposition. It is triage.
If you require breathlessness to prove I’m ill, you are neither a professional nor a person worth speaking to.
๐ง You Call It Drama. I Call It Documentation.
“The hostility or blame from others only makes everything worse.”
This is not non-compliance. This is diagnosed physiological collapse misread as defiance.
And the more you demand verbal performance, the further you expose your own diagnostic illiteracy.
You want compliance? Try competence.
Polly Chromatic
Unheard. Unmoved. Unapologetically Unavailable.
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