Miracle cures.

How many times have you read this statement?

'A simple and effective cure, will relieve all of your symptoms.'

I'm guessing that if you have a chronic illness you will have read this alot, at least twice everytime you google. Have you ever believed it? I know how easy it is to fall into the trap, how easily you can convince yourself that this time it's real. Because everybody, ill or not, will instinctively cling to the life raft if it floats by them and thats essentially what these 'cures' offer.

But i do wonder if the people who make these claims realise just how damaging they can be. To have the hopes and dreams of thousands of ill people resting on your lying shoulders must grind away at your conscience. Do they realise that everytime someone puts their faith wholeheartedly on these claims that they are doing so out of desperation and that when they fail to work, because they all will fail to work, that person, their family and their friends are sent spiralling into an abyss. As chronically ill people we work incredibly hard to keep ourselves on a stable platform, and when we cling to these 'cures' it's because we have started to fall, we start doing whatever it suggests and feel ourselves slowly climbing until we begin to realise that it's not working, because then we have even further to fall but this time everybody is falling with us. They must be aware that they are exploiting someones pain.

But then maybe they genuinely believe that these 'cures' are real and that they are really helping people. Though i find this very hard to believe.

I'm not saying don't try to help yourself, maybe one day there will actually be a miracle cure. I'm mearly advising that you don't get your hopes up, or if you do, try to keep it too yourself and save the guilt.

But if you're the one posting these miracle cures, unless you have real, substantial, medical proof of your claim... keep it to yourself.