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MCS Awareness Month 2025

We are taking the opportunity this May for international MCS Awareness month, to raise awareness of this misunderstood illness and promote how to raise funds for MCS Aware. Below you can read a heartfelt poem from one of our longstanding members who has been severely impacted by the symptoms of Multiple...

Lily’s Story

Lily (Not real name); 68 years of age; female; married; not employed or working; lives in own home with husband; lives in the West Midlands; mostly house-bound because of environmental pollution. I had suffered from perfume sensitivity from my 30s although it became much worse in my 40s when I became...

Laurie’s Story

Hi, I am a woman in her sixties, and have been living with a kind of generalized super-sensitivity for much of my life. It is like living in a world where the majority of people seem to be blissfully unaware of the soup of hazards and toxins that they live...

Anastasia’s Story

I started having an intolerance to gluten around 2000. I then started to have more symptoms in 2013 through to 2015 with insomnia and I was waking up at 3 or 4am with severe anxiety, vertigo, fainting, panic attacks and Raynaud's. It was getting worse and worse. Then in 2015...

Sophie and Gina’s story

The Wellbeing Twins - Sophie & Gina My twin sister Gina and I have been suffering with ME / CFS severely for almost a decade now. Between us, we experience a lot of weird and not so wonderful symptoms and they emphasise the complexity of the immunological and neurological disease that is...

Anne’s Story

My name is Anne and I live in Melbourne Australia. I have had chemical sensitivities since 1977 after my flat was treated with insecticides due to fleas in the carpet. Over the years my chemical sensitivities have gradually become worse due to infections, dental treatment , stress and most recently...

REACH letter to MP’s regarding Chemicals & Brexit

(date) Dear (name) MP,   As your constituent, I am writing to you to express my serious concerns about the potential negative impacts of Brexit on protection of people and the environment from hazardous chemicals in the UK.  I am particularly concerned about the possibility of leaving the EU's chemical regulation, REACH, which, although it’s not...

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Ways to decrease stress

Living with a life-changing condition like environmental illness is incredibly stressful. It can impact every area of your life. In turn physical, mental and emotional stress can also exacerbate food and chemical sensitivities setting up a vicious cycle. If you have identified one of the sources of stress in your life...

Plastic Free July

The plastic bottles, bags and takeaway containers that we use just for a few minutes use a material that is designed to last forever. These plastics: break up, not break down – becoming permanent pollution are mostly downcycled (made into low grade product for just one more use) or sent to...