Disability Not Invisibility: My experience With Chronic Illness. | Vicky Potter | TEDxFSU
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Victoria “Vicky” Potter is a sophomore in the Honors College at FSU, majoring in Neuroscience. She was born and raised in Memphis, TN, and is a first generation American. She is a part of two student groups on campus: RENEW (Realizing Everyone’s Need for Emotional Wellness), a peer education group organized to teach students how to deal with stress and time management, and Phi Delta Epsilon, the only medical fraternity on campus that fundraises for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Vicky is also certified as an EMT in three states and works as an Emergency Room Technician at Capital Regional Medical Center. Next semester, you can find her teaching the Honors class of 2023 as a 2019 Honors Colloquium Leader. Victoria “Vicky” Potter is a sophomore in the Honors College at FSU, majoring in Neuroscience. She was born and raised in Memphis, TN, and is a first generation American. She is a part of two student groups on campus: RENEW (Realizing Everyone’s Need for Emotional Wellness), a peer education group organized to teach students how to deal with stress and time management, and Phi Delta Epsilon, the only medical fraternity on campus that fundraises for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Vicky is also certified as an EMT in three states and works as an Emergency Room Technician at Capital Regional Medical Center. Next semester, you can find her teaching the Honors class of 2023 as a 2019 Honors Colloquium Leader. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I've got POTS too. this TEDtalk is so important for those without invisible illnesses to help them understand those who look "normal" but are suffering on the inside.
As someone with chronic illnesses and chronic pain I applaud 👏🏼 you for this video if only more people understood!
"I didn't believe you could wake up one day, and be sick for the rest of your life." Great presentation! Thank you!
Wow this is uncanny. This is almost exactly what I went through in the past month and a half with my POTS; going to the ER, seeing tons of doctors, the fatigue, the pain. When I go back to school in a month, I'll have to use a wheelchair. It's comforting to see someone else like me.
I am extremely glad you made this talk. I have a chronic disability that is dismissed everyday by the healthy or normal population. Or they downplay my symptoms and say they go through it too. When they have no idea. People who aren’t around me all the time wouldn’t know that I am disabled. I have a service dog. I get asked all the time oh are you training her for someone else? No she’s mine. Why do I have to explain myself and my personal information to someone who I don’t even know? Just a frustrating world right now.
You summed up exactly how it is to live with POTS. Thank you.
I have POTS too. Thanks for telling your story. I'm struggling to get treatment because no cardiologist will treat me.
Wow, awesome talk! You even made me cry, because you voiced so many of the struggles I have been facing for years with my disability. Thank you so much!
I just nodded all the way through this. Great and so true. I am In the UK with chronic pain but still undergoing more tests for more diagnosis. Xx
I had an "invisible illness" for 8 years (ulcerative colitis) and I did feel the shame and embarrassment mentioned in this video.
Everyone needs to really listen to this message.
I wish that this was labeled as dysautonomia/pots ...I had to search hard to find a ted talk on this. (I have pots)
Thank you so very, very much for your talk. I suffer with several chronic illnesses and can relate so much. Thank you! 💕
Thank you for this - you changed my life
Perfectly said! Probably the best I’ve heard. Thank you for speaking the pure truth!! ❤️
Definitely needs to be shared more 💜 I really needed to hear this today
Bravo, excellent talk and right on point
Damn girl that was fierce! Rock on sista!!!
So true!! Thank you for sharing
Thank you for this wonderful talk. You did not mince your words, and I think you were very clear in helping all of us understand that the disability community is large and diverse. I have electromagnetic hypersensitivity -- an invisible disability that because of our cultures rampant use of wireless technology -- drastically limits my freedom to leave the confined of my EMF-shielded room. This condition is widely not believed in or recognized by my doctors who keep trying to diagnose it as something else. I resonated with everything you said in one way or another. Thanks for sharing your truth so eloquently. I learned a lot and I value your message.
Thank you Vicky 🙌😘
The conspiracy theorists in the comments are the reason people are scared to go out in their wheelchairs when they need one
conspiracy theories = Qanon are hate crimes against the disability. not doubt.
I got this due to my lyme-disease infection.
me too 😕
@@jessicah3450 💚
Check vitamin b12 (active b12 MMA) levels and vitamin D3 and iron profile.
Agree with everything.
total recovery from chronic conditions? Many anecdotes on Raelan Agle's UA-cam channel, worth watching?
POTS is a symptom of something else, get a functional doctor, allopathic doctors will not look for the cause
sometimes it is idiopathic sometimes it is a secondary condition i know i live with it and research it to see if there are any new treatments
borrelia infection.
Lol she can stand for like 3 to 4 min, if I get that much I would never ever complain in life