Participants needed for interview for a documentary

[lynmynott]

Thyroid UK has been approached by a journalist, Yasmeen Eltahan, at the City University of London who is looking to film a documentary about the link between body and mind (how your mind can manifest symptoms in the body).

Yasmeen explained to me that while the body/thyroid dysfunction is 100% valid, certain life events may have triggered the thyroid condition. It does not apply to everyone, but it has been backed up by research.

The documentary will include psychiatrists validating those who live with autoimmune disease and their symptoms while also talking about the mind-body connection that isn't always considered.

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She is looking for some insight into this and to chat to someone who fits this criteria. It can be 100% anonymous.

If you would like to participate, email Yasmeen at [e-mail]

[RedApple]

' (how your mind can manifest symptoms in the body).'

Either I am misunderstanding, or these words are extremely poorly chosen. Many members here have been told that their symptoms are 'all in their head' when in fact their symptoms are caused by thyroid dysfunction.

Yasmeen Eltahan needs to clarify what exactly she means, and what she is expecting from thyroid patients that will help her study?

[greygoose in reply to RedApple]

My thoughts exactly. I wonder why she thinks that thyroid patients fit her bill?

[arTistapple]

I hate to say this but the question may be a result of picking up ‘fixed ideas’ which seem to abound about hypothyroid patients. In my experience journalists can have pretty superficial knowledge about lots of issues. For all we know she could have picked up this idea from a superficially educated doctor.

[arTistapple]

Looks like she has put this out widely. Looks like it is not aimed at thyroid patients particularly.

[greygoose in reply to arTistapple]

Even so, I don't think it would be a good idea for thyroid patients to respond because it would just reinforce the medical stereotype.

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

shall I email her and find out more?

I’m guessing the reverse … body impact on mind would be more our narrative.

I’ll ask, maybe we can educate through sharing our stories… or maybe I have rose tinted glasses on 😆

🌱

[arTistapple in reply to Regenallotment]

How brave are you?

[Regenallotment Ambassador in reply to arTistapple]

stooopid more than brave 🙈

[lynmynott Partner Thyroid UK]

I've contacted her for more info. I got the impression it was to do with childhood issues but I may be wrong.

[lynmynott Partner Thyroid UK in reply to lynmynott]

She has now contacted me with some further info which I have put in the text of my original post.

[Regenallotment Ambassador in reply to lynmynott]

Thanks for this info, I’ll enquire and see, not keen on publicly sharing childhood issues but I’ll see what she is looking for. 🌱

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

Update for  RedApple  greygoose  arTistapple  lynmynott and anyone else curious.

We emailed and then we had a quick 20 minute zoom.

Yasmeen is a warm friendly kind and genuine young woman, the documentary is for her Uni course, its being submitted as part of her studies and may be entered into competitions. It is not for general TV broadcast.

She herself suffers with a chronic pain condition and all she wanted was for me to talk about my experiences of being diagnosed, what helped, what the worst of it was, a little about mental health during (nothing about prior) and she is keen to show the similarities between conditions. She has someone with juvenile arthritis, her own experiences, we talked medications, gut health, gas lighting (she has personal experience of being told her condition is in her head).

She would love to hear from more people if anyone would like to talk about their experiences, you can help her with the research without being in the documentary.

Details in  lynmynott 's post 🌱🦋🌱

[RedApple in reply to Regenallotment]

Regenallotment, thank you for reporting back on this 😊