The Missing Half of the Pentad & Every List Like It

You've probably seen the "pentad": endometriosis, MCAS, POTS, hEDS, pelvic venous disease, the conditions that keep showing up together in chronic illness spaces. What's missing from almost every version of that list, and every list like it, is mental health. Not as an afterthought, as part of the same mechanism. This piece maps out where these comorbidity frameworks actually come from, and the overlap nobody's studying between the physical lists and the mental health ones.

Read the full piece on Substack and view the upcoming series here