ME and The Lightning Process

[Guest guest]

Thanks to Tom Kindlon

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weare3forme's posterous

February 23, 2011

The Lightning Process and ME

Our friend, let's call him X, has been ill

for 8 years now after catching a virus.

X wanted to tell of his experience of the

Lightning Process, after the coverage in

The Times yesterday.

In the 3rd year of being ill, X was under

pressure from family to try the Lightning

Process. Since they offered to pay, he

agreed to it, thinking that it would be

worth a shot if it had worked for other

people. He describes himself as having

moderate-severe ME back then.

Before you go on a Lightning Process

course, you have to sign a form saying

you won't disclose the actual details of

what the Lightning Process actually is.

They say that this is because it is a 3

day course and it needs to be explained

properly. So we can't say what it

involves exactly, but suffice to say, X

says it actually could be explained in

5-10 minutes.

X was with a trained practioner, who

confirmed that X had learnt the process

properly and was doing it correctly.

Basically it was a type of brainwashing.

They tell you that you're not allowed to

say that you're ill anymore or that you

have any symptoms. They force you to

ignore the symptoms because they say

that the symptoms don't really exist.

They force you to do activities even

though it's making you really ill, but

you're not allowed to say so.

They are very good at getting vulnerable

patients to believe all of this. They

dress up all their explanations and make

it sound like science.

X was so desperate to get better so

started to do more and was gradually

increasing his activity, all the while

practising the Lightning Process.

He was getting more and more ill but he

thought he just had to keep practising

the Lightning Process and things would

improve.

His body was becoming more and more

damaged by the activity. To cut a long

story short, a few months later, X was

in hospital bed-bound. He kept on

blacking out if he tried to do anything at

all.

Doctors found it odd that he kept saying

that he wasn't ill at all. He could barely

move yet he kept saying that there was

nothing wrong with him. That's how

deep the brainwashing was.

Thankfully, a very wise doctor snapped

him out of it.

The doctor showed X PET and SPECT

scans of X's brain (commonly abnormal

in ME patients). The doctor showed him

X's cardiomyopathy (also common in ME

patients). Confronted with these facts,

X finally realised the extent of the

brainwashing.

This is what he wrote soon afterwards:

" I feel like I have come out of a daze - I

think I was brainwashed by the lightning

process. Part of it was that I wasn't

allowed to say or even think I was ill, so

there I was telling everyone that I was

feeling better when I was actually

feeling so ill. It was all an act.

It's all a bit confusing now really. How

could I have fallen for it, hook line and

sinker? I'm cross with myself that I

actually believed some of the lightning

process stuff - I guess I was just so

desperate to get better.

I still get angry when I even think of the

Lightning Process. It has made me

bedbound, when before I was merely

housebound. I am so angry that even I,

who has a degree in Physics, could be

this hoodwinked.

They are very subtle and clever at what

they do and prey on vulnerable patients

who would do anything/ believe

anything in order to get better. "

[Guest guest]

I always wondered how the " Lightening Process " could help anyone, but now

it makes sense, they forced the patients to claim they were healthy, so

when people asked them after they were done about their illness, the

patients claimed they were healthy. This delusion couldn't last, which

explains why they crashed after they finished the " Lightning Process " .

WHAT A SCAM! An ingenious scam, but a scam none the less.

Steve M in PA