An independent record of what medicine is learning.

I started this publication because I couldn't find it. For more than twenty years I was chronically ill with Lyme disease, and again and again a doctor told me the tests showed nothing. The fatigue, the fog, the pain and the anxiety that came with them were mine to explain, and the explanations I was offered often left me worse — including a stretch of conventional mental-health care that did more harm than the illness it was treating. At the worst of it came depersonalization and derealization — with me since the Lyme, or earlier — the world going flat and unreal, or my own body feeling like something I was watching rather than something I was in. Nobody ever told me what it was, or that it had a name. I found that out the way I found out most of the rest.

So I searched on my own. That search went through therapies and clinics mainstream medicine doesn't recognize, in countries that will offer what the United States won't. Some of it helped. Some of it cost money and hope for nothing, and the money was almost all I had. I'd be doing readers no favor if I wrote as though I had been right all along. What I can say plainly is where I am now: in remission, mentally clear, and better than I have been in two decades.

The difference between that and the version of my life where I was told nothing was wrong came down to information — who had it, who was willing to say it out loud, and who had reasons not to. People deserve to know what is being studied outside the usual channels, and they deserve to be told when something isn't ready yet. That is the entire brief of this site.

What one person's recovery cannot do is serve as evidence. It is a single immune system, a single history, no comparison group, and it proves nothing about what will help anyone else. Nothing here is covered because I believe in it, and nothing is set aside because a mainstream institution finds it undignified. The standards on this page apply to the treatments I have paid for out of my own pocket exactly as they apply to everyone else's.

— The editor and founder

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