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Then, talking of acceptance, after 10+ years of friendship I have a friend who also has Long-Covid - since 2020, like me - who has basically told my partner and I she doesn't want to know us because of two things:

1) My approach to Long-Covid - which for both me and my now former friend is very like ME/CFS - in having acceptance in terms of recovery. I said I don't trust these programmes focused on 'recovery' when they are making a load of money promising a 'cure' for people desperate to get better, when there is no scientific proven cure for this illness yet. Their methods also often involve a lot of dangerous stuff like CBT and GET but rebranded as something else. The things that do help with management of the symptoms can be found for free on the NHS or by talking to others in the community and what has and hasn't worked for them. I also said I was concerned about the individual focus that comes along with these recovery narratives and if you don't get better, or get worse, it is somehow your own failure - which obviously is what the state wants everyone to believe, especially given how many people are getting ill during the ongoing pandemic...