: Re: Amygdala Retraining

[Guest guest]

If I may strongly suggest that people read up all about the

Wesselyites, what their agenda is, what they think of CFS ( that it

is a functional somatoform disorder, ie nothing physically wrong with

us, just that we have wrong illness beliefs that we are physically

ill, hence CBT to change these wrong beliefs, that we shouldn't be

tested for anything physical as this just panders to our delusions

that we are physically ill) That we are the " undeserving sick " . How

questionable their CBT research is etc etc.

Also very importantly what they have done over the past 20 years, in

collusion with the health insurance industries, whom they work for,

and the government, to perpetuate this definition.

Here is a link to an excellent, factual article written by Prof

Hooper etc that details all the chicanery, lies and deceptions.It

was written for the use of lawyers, doctors, journalists in the event

of a judicial review so they would have access to all the gory

details.

You may ask why there is a secret file, not to be opened for 30

years, on this illness if it is merely a load of people just wrongly

thinking they are physically ill?

I've posted just the intro below,

BW,

Sheila

http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/Corporate_Collusion_2.htm

CORPORATE COLLUSION ?

Professor Malcolm Hooper Eileen Marshall

Margaret SEPTEMBER 2007

The UK Medical Research Council has a secret file on Myalgic

Encephalomyelitis (ME) that contains records and correspondence since

at least 1988; the file is held in the UK Government Archive at Kew

and cannot be opened until 2023. This present document is an

overview of the misinformation and contradictions about Myalgic

Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) that have

pervaded some UK Departments of State and other agencies since 1988.

It also considers the involvement of certain UK psychiatrists who

have proven vested interests in the propagation of this

misinformation that is contrary to world-wide scientific evidence and

that for two decades has resulted in the medical abuse of UK patients

with ME/CFS.

Introduction

One particular question in relation to the plight of patients with ME

in the UK keeps recurring: who is driving the persistent denial of

the evidence that ME is a multi-system biomedical disorder and not a

behavioural disorder?

Does responsibility lie with the " Wessely School " psychiatric lobby

(a small but influential group of mental health professionals led by

Professor Simon Wessely of Kings College Hospital and the Institute

of Psychiatry, London), or is it the other way round, with this

psychiatric lobby acting as willing front men for covert State

control of those with ME/CFS who are openly referred to as

the " undeserving sick " ? This term was used in 1999 by Wessely School

psychiatrist Professor Sharpe:

" Purchasers and Health Care providers with hard pressed budgets are

understandably reluctant to spend money on patients for whom there is

controversy about the `reality' of their condition (and who) are in

this sense undeserving of treatment. Those who cannot be fitted into

a scheme of objective bodily illness yet refuse to be placed into and

accept the stigma of mental illness remain the undeserving sick of

our society and our health service " ( " ME: what do we know (real

illness or all in the mind)? " Lecture given at the University of

Strathclyde, October 1999).

These psychiatrists seem to be clearly in breach of the first tenet

of medicine --- first do no harm

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> > research. Thats just not the case. There is a

> > substantial amount of research focused on CBT and

> > graded exercise but most of the research into CFS is

> > focused on physiology. Check out Pubmed. Its even true

> > in the UK with the difference being the govt only

> > supports behavioral research.

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