To think we are becoming a country of hypochondriacs?

Yes and plenty of people(understandably) didn’t cope. The idea that everyone compliantly and cheerfully went along with blackouts, rationing and other restrictions is a myth. People struggled. People turned to crime, broke laws, struggled and were traumatised. They didn’t all go skipping along cheerily singing Knees Up, Mother Brown while thumbing their noses at the Luftwaffe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33566789.amp

Their problems were very real(as are many challenges that people face today) and shouldn’t be used as fodder for people’s masturbatory fantasies of WW2 that they like to beat struggling people over the head with.

The burden of proof is on the person who proposed a hypothesis... which is you.

Thank you 😊

They didn't cope during the war they where murdered first because that's what happens when people see a group of people who they see as lesser them then. It's crazy that in 2025 people still think this way

Also I might say I find WFH easier because of my periods but not go into it
That's because I can have a heat pad, a tens machine and take morphine without having to drive but people just hear "period pain"

People don't believe invisible illnesses though
So if I have a UTI or a chest infection or anything like that, I need the doctor asap for emergency antibiotics

I work with more medical conditions and pain than people know about but I get "you're always ill"
Well yeah... not only am I immunocompromised, I'm on a shit ton of medication with a load of health issues! It's not like I'm going to be well is it?

Goodness knows how those stressed out snowfkakes would have coped during the war. Air raids.Rationing, relatives fighting at the front, threat of invasion. It would have given them something else to think about other than their sorry poor. little selves.

Yeah. This is just more of the same judgemental nonsense. Bonus points for bringing up the grandparents who worked down the mines though 👍

Have you spelled dyslexia wrong on purpose as an attempt at some sort of clever point?

Havent' read replies to your post and whilst i agree those conditions are awful, life limiting (conditions) in the sense that I understand it, and have, are ones that you won't survive.

I think part of the issue is we have TV filled with adverts related to dying and death, we have social media feeds filling up with 10 things to eat to avoid xxx and other similar stuff - and Google on tap to search for every ache and pain that's bothering. The US has always been like this - I've had conversations with Americans that within 20 minutes I know all the 'meds' they are on - it seems like a national sport when the reality is it's a gigantic money maker!!

Wow your so blessed that you don't understand the realities of this life

I have diagnosed Anxiety , depression etc. . It's not just feeling a bit worried . I can get so anxious I can relapse into Postpartum Pyschosis which then means I have to have the crisis team come out. Which can you imagine how it feels when you also have diagnosed Social phobia 😭 I also have migraines that mimic strokes . My brain seems to really hate me 😭 I sometimes think childhood trauma fucked my brain up as I never got help as kid

Yes, completely agree. No ambition with some people, no ability to push on and create a better life.

This along with no scientific diagnosis of made up "dislexia" etc. Just attempts to get more, put in less and do as little as possible.

People need to also realise that when you have disabilities and chronic illnesses you also have to take a lot of medication i have to take 52 pills a day, 2 inhalers and regular injections all of these medications make you feel exhausted and just generally shit so it's not just the condition your dealing with it's the side effects of so much medication

@RandomButtons not sure what you mean, but we all went through lockdown too.

Have a day off 😂

The pressure of both parents having to work means if the child has the sniffles then rather than a rest and tlc then a gp visit is essential so the child can be back in nursery/school next day with parent worrying all day about getting that phone call to come and collect

When they were expected to be locked in doors isolated from everyone for two weeks over every cough or high temperature are we really that surprised?

I think you should just be grateful for your own good health OP and stop judging others where you really have no idea of their actual situation and issues - physically and mentally .

What a depressing thread.

What we are certainly becoming is a society with no empathy or understanding.

There's definitely some people that will do anything not to work, but some people on here seem to think that the majority of people with chronic conditions are taking the mickey, and have little to no understanding of what life is like for people that are suffering with these issues.

I was very rarely allowed a day off school unless I was seriously ill. I think people are more likely to be absent from work with things we'd have describes as minor back in the 70s.

Oh says at his workplace some of the younger people don't even phone in to say they won't be in.

Exactly which is why I'm confused of why your calling your friend a hypochondriac. You do understand that health anxiety is the updated term for hypochondria

This is exactly what I mean. I have never even slightly insinuated that I don't want disabled people to speak and yet you are absolutely desperate to claim that I have. I simply said that we can't keep asking all posters to provides sources for their opinions/claims as it isn't the nature of this forum. We aren't writing academic essays. For example,
you have claimed that disabled people are the most vulnerable in society which is quite a bold claim when you think of other very vulnerable and marginalised groups in society. Where was your evidence for this claim? Why are you allowed to make uncited unproven claims and other posters can't?

I have noticed a growing trend on this forum where someone will question for example the number of people claiming PIP or claiming to have health conditions. Almost immediately they will be pounced upon by posters claiming that it is ableist to even ask questions about this and we all just absolutely unquestioningly accept that everyone claiming to be ill or disabled is completely honest and there is absolutely nothing else going on that's underlying this trend. Your initial post on this thread was this:
Oh look! Another vile, ableist post on Mumsnet. Yes, those of us with chronic pain are all weak hypochondriacs and you superior, strong people can lord over us with your excellent health. Until you get hit by a bus
A ridiculously extreme response to the thread and deliberately using inflammatory language to shut down debate.

Some of my opinions have been skewed by some family members - one had a high paid professional job before marriage wealthy partner sahm now single but would only work for the equivalent pay of over twenty years ago now has mental health problems not helped by having nothing to do the other has a physical disability but wants to work in a niche area but has little experience so does not work.
There are things they could do but both see it as beneath them - I am sure the majority aren't like them but it is hard when this what I see