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Laura Elliott

What’s wrong with the PACE trial anyway?

A primer for people new to ME/CFS & Long Covid, on the controversy surrounding the PACE trial and exercise therapy for post-viral illness

10 min readMay 4, 2021

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Stop Catastrophizing Your Catastrophe

Instead of helping me, many doctors minimized and misinterpreted my debilitating and constant vertigo.

8 min readDec 7, 2019

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Laura Elliott

Review: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

Ok, so when I write book reviews I usually write them quite conventionally: here’s what the book’s about, this is what I did/didn’t like…

4 min readMay 30, 2019

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Review: Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

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M.E. Patients and the Researchers that Silence Them

A lot of things have been written recently about patients living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), often erroneously known as Chronic…

7 min readMar 19, 2019

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M.E. Patients and the Researchers that Silence Them

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Laura Elliott

Remember, You Are Alive

To you, dear Reader. (I’ve always wanted to start a piece of writing that way!)

7 min readDec 22, 2018

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Remember, You Are Alive

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Laura Elliott

The Wonderfully Weird Women Writers You Should be Reading this Halloween

The nights are drawing in, Netflix is featuring its creepiest shows, and Halloween in all of its gothic glory is very nearly upon us…

5 min readOct 29, 2018

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The Wonderfully Weird Women Writers You Should be Reading this Halloween

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Laura Elliott

The Final Straw

The UK government has formally announced its plan to ban the distribution of plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and cotton buds, despite…

4 min readOct 26, 2018

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The Final Straw

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The Study Circle — A Meditation on Growing up Muslim in Britain

“And there was no safe place, the baying of the outside world had collapsed the walls between public and private. Everything living…

3 min readOct 5, 2018

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The Study Circle — A Meditation on Growing up Muslim in Britain

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Laura Elliott

Why Men Like Kavanaugh Are Frightened of Dr Ford

“Both Brett and Mark were drunkenly laughing during the attack. They seemed to be having a very good time.”

4 min readSep 29, 2018

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Why Men Like Kavanaugh Are Frightened of Dr Ford

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Girl in the Window — The Disability Thriller you didn’t know YA was missing

“No one sees me. I am a ghost. I am invisible.”

2 min readSep 20, 2018

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Girl in the Window — The Disability Thriller you didn’t know YA was missing

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Laura Elliott

Laura Elliott

Disabled freelance journalist and copywriter. Words on feminism, disability, books, and healthcare — probably. Twitter @TinyWriterLaura

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