The Gupta methods and beliefs - PART ONE

[Guest guest]

I would ask eveyone who intends to vote to READ this information

about the Gupta methods and to consider the implications for all PWME

and CFS who have had an acute onset and need access to proper

investigations and treament.

It's not a perfect account. There are errors as it was produced by a

sick person.

The important thing to know is that if Gupta had his way, we wouldn't

get proper testing and treatment . There would be no point. There is

no virus or any pathogen left. There is no genetic problem like

Yasko. In fact the only problem is US.

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" The Gupta Amygdala Retraining™ is a brand new powerful treatment

for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME, Fibromyalgia, and associated

conditions. "

Or so reads the advertising behind this so called treatment. Which is

offered for sale by it's inventor.

One his website Mr Gupta also says that his methods are based on

" my medical paper which was published in a peer reviewed medical

journal in 2002 "

The " medical journal " that he mentions is not a medical journal in

the way that all CFS and ME patients would understand a medical

journal to be.

Bruce G Charlton, who is a reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry in the

UK, runs medical Hypotheses. And it has a number of Psychiatrists on

its Editorial Advisory Board. It says that is not peer reviewed in

the way other journals are.

So what's in this very important paper by a " well-known researcher

and therapist in the field of ME/CFS " ?

The paper begins by claiming that it is about Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome, which he calls ME/CFS.

People who do have CFS and ME with these illnesses recognise that

there is no entity with that name. Some people with each disease meet

the criteria or description used by many do not. People with CFS in

the UK can be dianosed with the Oxford criteria which includes a wide

group of people with chronic fatigue and little investigation.

This is an attempt by Mr Gupta to muddy the waters. After all if he

can lump people with Oxford criteria CFS (for example) in with people

with epidemic ME, then it becomes a much larger group of patients for

him to earn his living off.

This paper was written in 2002,

Mr Gupta then goes on to claim that this group (his ME/CFS) is " much

more prone to stress and anxiety " ,

However he provides no reference to this, so we have no idea who he

is talking about and how Mr Gupta decided this.

He then goes on to claim that

" panic disorder has been identified as the having the highest rate of

familial comorbidity in ME/CFS1 "

This time he does provide a reference, but then it all goes horribly

wrong again. The reference is to a paper entitled

Comorbidity of fibromyalgia with medical and psychiatric disorders.

Am J Med 92(4): 363-367

So it's not a paper on CFS and ME after all. Reading the paper showed

that it was on patents that met the ACOR criteria for Fibromyalgia.