Misguided recovery from CFS

[Guest guest]

I want all of you to examine this example of " misguided recovery "

from CFS. Tom Oates describes his strategy for recovery as

pursuing " healing peace " but look at the MANNER in which he

accomplished this miraculous " healing " :

http://www.healing-peace.com/story.html

>At first it was diagnosed as mononucleosis and bronchitis. I had

>lost a lot of weight; my hair was falling out by the handfuls. My

>vision was blurred, my brain was fuzzy, my joints ached and I had

>chronic tonsillitis. I was coughing up blood. I slept a lot, and

>after four months, began venturing back to the office, trying to

>drive the fatigue away with productive effort. When I looked in

>the .mirror, I did not recognize myself. I had aged 15 years in five

>months and felt like I was 80 and getting older every day. I thought

>I was dying. My health was spiraling down out of control at an

>accelerating pace.

>After five doctors in nine months, I was diagnosed with CFIDS by Dr.

> Cheney. He showed me scans of fatigued brains and said to avoid

>all aerobic exercise. I was just happy to have found a physician

>that did not treat me like a lying, incurable, whining hypochondriac.

>I gave up my apartment. I had my things put into storage and moved

>home, thankful to have a place to fall back on. I was put on

>disability leave. -Tom Oates.

I GAVE UP MY APARTMENT!

I HAD MY THINGS PUT INTO STORAGE AND MOVED HOME,

THANKFUL TO HAVE A PLACE TO FALL BACK ON.

Sound familiar to anyone?

Yet somehow Tom reached the conclusion that it was " stress " that he

was avoiding - this is the " Unconscious Avoidance " that I refer to.

When I tested my reaction to Stachy by taking a sample to a safe

place and found - much to my amazement - that STRESS-ANXIETY-

DEPRESSION was the consistent response to such exposure, I adopted

these " emotional responses " as an indicator of toxic exposure and a

guide to appropriate avoidance and decontamination protocols.

As I've said before, " Depression " is not what psychiatrists think it

is. Depression is natures way of signalling immunological

upregulation of inflammatory cytokines and is designed as a WARNING

SYSTEM OF IMPENDING DAMAGE.

Tom's story is consistent with mycotoxicosis. He experienced the

immunological inflammatory upregulation and depletion of leucocyte

subsets which allowed viral reactivation AND he correctly observed

the correlation of cytokine upregulation with his " emotional

responses " .

His avoidance of the " stress/cytokine " response was appropriate.

His attribution of recovery by controlling " stress " was not.

It was avoidance of the immunological response to toxic exposures

that induced the " stress " response that allowed his " healing " .

My God! How long is it going to take before people get this through

their heads?

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