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How the 'Cult of Productivity' Harms People With Chronic Illness

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While scrolling through my Facebook feed last night, I caught the headline of an article promising to teach me “how to have a productive meltdown” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At first, I thought it was a joke, or maybe a satirical essay. It was not. As someone who has numerous chronic physical and mental illnesses, the headline struck me as not only insensitive, but dangerous.

Sure, I understand that the author probably didn’t mean to use the word “meltdown” to describe an acute physical or psychiatric condition in a medical sense.

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