Guest guest Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 > > ***Core CFS pathology and it's persistance is both unrelated and > utterly independent of thoughts, thought processes, emotions and > behavior. Like any serious disease one will have a variety of > thoughts, thought processes, emotions and behaviors in reaction to it, > but these held as the cause of the disease are simply unverified > beliefs and unchecked assumptions about the core pathology, nothing more. I agree , but only if you mean it in regards to CAUSING CFS/ME. Thoughts, emotions, behavior have certainly been shown to affect almost ANY disease after or while one has it. If that weren't the case, then we'd all be able to handle any sort of emotional or physical stressor with no problem, whereas meditation, active resting, etc., may be beneficial to some of us...maybe not all, but some. We could party all night, stay up for days without it affecting our health. > > ***There's no scientific data to support them as causal in CFS. Core > CFS pathology and it's symptoms will not be conquered by treatments > aimed at altering these things. That's where his theory is kind of double talk. He first says " that ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia are conditions that are essentially caused and perpetuated by a brain structure called the amygdala. " Then in the next paragraph he backtracks, saying that some sort of stressor combined with " a virus, or bacterial infection, or something else " causes a trauma in the amygdala. So...it's the virus, bacteria, mold, pesticide, chemicals, and/or a combo of several...that cause the amygdala to overreact or dysfunction... Just my two cents! d. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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