This post, authored by Mary Gilleece, was republished with permission from The Daily Sceptic
Now that trans is on the way out and scepticism is being raised about the over-diagnosis of ADHD and autism, what are miserable teenage girls and their anxious mothers going to fixate on next? Nature abhors a vacuum and there may be a new condition in town to fill the void: POTS.
In the past couple of terms visiting schools and further education colleges I have noticed an increasing number of teenage girls using walking sticks. It is not unusual to see disabled children in mainstream schools, generally one or two in wheelchairs, also a handful of students with temporary breaks on crutches or wearing a plastic boot. But it’s a new sight, for me at least, to see teenage girls using walking sticks. Especially two girls in one group with walking sticks decorated with stickers.
When three separate girls over the past month told me that they have suspected or finally diagnosed POTS I remembered the old fashion adage: ‘Two’s a coincidence, three’s a trend.’ I have learned that POTS, as well as being a lively TikTok and Insta hashtags is short for Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and involves feeling dizzy when standing up – hence the need for walking sticks. There is no cure and, according to the NHS, POTS “affects everyone differently”, with severe symptoms such as light-headedness or weakness or extreme tiredness. #didyouyawn is a popular hashtag for the growing community of POTS sufferers.
Annie (not her real name), a 17 year-old recently-diagnosed POTS sufferer, was able to explain things for me. “I’ve always been very tired and I feel funny every time I stand up. I printed out the POTS description for my GP who sent me to a consultant. I had to lie on a wobbly table and then get up. I said I felt dizzy so I’ve got my diagnosis which is great.” Her plan is to do a three-month nail technician course at the local college in September – but she adds sadly: “Now I have POTS, I don’t know if I’m going to manage the bus journey. It’s 80 minutes each way.” She’s been advised to stay hydrated and make sure she takes in sufficient salt but she is returning to her GP to find out if there are any pharmaceutical options. She already receives PIP payments for her anxiety and wonders what her new diagnosis will mean when she has her benefits review next month.
A teacher with 30 years experience told me:
There have always been a group of girls, usually beginning in Year 9 who are unhappy. Their unhappiness manifests differently depending on what’s current. In the 1980s it was poetry of all things, then the Goths had a good run, ME was popular until eating disorders and self-harm wreaked havoc, lesbianism was a much gentler option until that became passé and trans, ADHD and autism took a hold.
A quick look at the videos about POTS on TikTok and Insta seems to bear this observation out – the girls with the condition are of a type: there is a splatter of pink or blue hair and a bracing selection of piercings, as well as a sufficiency of pretty girls to add a level of appeal. A number of celebrities have been diagnosed including Solange Knowles and Jameela Jamil.
Google trends analytics demonstrate a dramatic increase in searching for the term between 2022 and 2025, while the NHS doesn’t keep a track of the diagnosis rates, it may surprise non-POTS sufferers that over 77 million people have viewed posts on #potslife that share such details about how to use ice-packs and carry salt sachets. As well as POTS, social trends in relation to chronic illness include EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) and MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) which variously cause among other things joint pain, inflammation and brain fog. Annie explained to me that energy for all such chronic illnesses are measured in spoons #spoonenergy.
Our collective health could indeed be in an ever-increasing state of collapse, which would go some way to explaining the growing number of young women who have postural tachycardia syndrome – a condition that is diagnosed in the geriatric wing of hospitals. It could also be the case that the girls who are using walking sticks in schools or FE colleges and think they have POTS and other chronic illnesses are unhappy. Unhappy because they come from broken homes, their families are skint, elite advice about how to live well is at odds with biological realities, their social lives are threadbare, schools haven’t taught sufficiently useful skills or knowledge and they spend hours a day on their phones instead of socialising and working. When these girls assess their prospects and see them to be bleak, there is a perverse wisdom in finding a sense of belonging with a group of like-minded fellow sufferers online.
POTS or no POTS, it is this malaise that we as a society ought to be addressing. And fast, before we all go potty.
Mary Gilleece is an education support worker and her name is a pseudonym.
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..hmm..getting up too quickly, and feeling dizzy. back in my century, we called that getting a headrush. it typically resolves itself within seconds..sans a walking-stick.
Yep… a good headrush was considered a FREE-buzz!!
When I was 17yo and in the best physical shape in my life, 4-sport letterman, I was sitting watching Monday Night Football … got up from my chair … and dropped to the floor clean passed out. Awoke with a bump on my head. My Doctor shrugged and went “meh”. You got up too fast, blood pressure couldn’t keep up … you passed out. Let me know if it ever happens again. It didn’t. Ever. And I’m 70 now.
That happened to me a once around 16/17 y/o after smoking a LOT of pot. Got up from sitting in a dark room, walked into bright kitchen & passed out. But I could see/feel it coming on so I lowered myself to the floor, ready for it. A couple other times, almost but not all the way passed out.
63 now… I quit POT in Nov. 1979 & my C- school grade average went to an A+ (High Honors… got me into college). 😎
Ahh yes the legendary white wahh-man, nature’s sewerpipes!!
It’s actually hilarious and embarrassing how intellectually weak and how easily programmed white bitches are.
And you’ll notice it’s all white cnuts – not a black or sandpeople cnut among them…..
White wahh-men have destroyed this world, not the politicians or corporations or war, just white wahh-men and their “Muh Rights!!!” bullshit.
“It’s the Joos!!!” screeches every Right-Tard on the planet, whilst very ‘conveniently’ ignoring the fact that the Small Hats have zero power without willing white Shabbos. And most Shabbos are white wahh-men…………………………………………………………..
They – almost to a woman – vote for far-Leftardism and mass-NIGGration.
Time to cut their endless benefits and endless special treatment and put them back voteless in the home where wahh-men belong.
Thanks for bringing this to the fore. Although it is with care that we humans give empathy to others and ourselves for legitimate malaise, even if for no other reason than fairness, but we need to be mindful that sympathy can do more harm than good if the malaise is emotionally driven. Speaking of fairness, we live in an era when the field of “psychology” has finally elbowed it’s way into a respectful place in medicine and seems to be getting drunk on it’s own successes. The number of diagnosis are unlimited, as are the increasing number of “practitioner’s” that think they are doctors.
In addition, as a matter of shear numbers of people, governments panic themselves using like minded people to handle growing problems by employing exclusively DEI hires with cans of gasoline to sympathetic put out the fires. These people foster the mystic malaise of it’s society for fear of failure, creating a vacant bureaucratic government using the taxes of worker bee’s to foster Sister Socialist Society’s that walk itself with a crutch into mental prison’s run by big brother whom have their own method’s of control as the cane becomes the cudgel for big brother to maintain control.
There are no coincidences or conspiracy theories. Just the reflections of history, and history tells us “everything in moderation”, not modernization.
But, hey, the good news is when all else fails AI is there to sort it all out for we decrepit humans that have been bitten by “walkers”. Just take the Jab and “everything will be fine” said Doc Brown.
Where are the parents? Are they even aware of what’s behind the use of the walking sticks?
Are you really that dense? These white snowflake Left-Tard hoes don’t have ‘parents’ – they only have a Mum.
One of the clearest-cut cases of Fatherless Behaviour around….
I will bet you most of these moron children simply have slightly lower blood pressure then optimum… When you stand up from resting positions quickly you get light headed for a short moment. I had this as a child, I simply learned to be careful jumping out of bed and eventually it goes away on it’s own without drugs. This society has become so helpless and infantile it’s pathetic.
Another jew pharma created issue. No money in cures folks. Plenty of money in life long big pharma created issues. Keep reading the fear porn.
The Small Hats have zero power without willing white Shabbos. And most Shabbos are white wahh-men………
Small hats are white too rafal. 97pc of the jewish population are genetically linked to eastern europe because they descend from japheth. The reality is that they are all satanist looking at our demise. Small hats are not a race and this type of divide and conquer serves nobody and we can also look at the muslim side and the african side too. Its not a race thing, its a satan v jesus thing. You can distract yourself with race if you wish, by doing so your only doing the work of the devil. Do your research before mouthing off garbage.
Reality is going to hit these kids very hard and they will not be ready. The end result will be addiction, welfare, self harm or suicide. What a terrible bleak future, and even if someone is pointing this out, they will more than likely ignore the warnings.
Pointing it out to them would be ‘miSoGynY’ or ‘aNTi-sEMaTisM’………