...When it's kids, it's not sectioning per se but being made a "ward of court" as the parents are blamed for "abusing" their kids by supporting a diagnosis of ME and "encouraging" their wrong behaviour, but it's the same end result.
None of this has anything to do with the behaviour of patients as if somehow this iatragenic abuse is justified.
From 1999, but worth a look for those who missed it first time round:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/panorama/506549.stm
Panorama Sick and Tired
Mathew Hill reported on several families who had experienced what IamME has set out above. At the BBC link, there are clips and a full transcript of the programme.
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There will be a Panorama special on the Kay Gilderdale case next Monday, 1 February.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qs930
I Helped My Daughter Die
Broadcasts
BBC One | Monday, 1 Feb 2010 20:30
Next on: | BBC News Channel | Thursday 4 Feb 2010 04:30
"Synopsis
What drives a mother to help her child die? For almost a year, Panorama cameras have been following Kay Gilderdale the woman at the centre of the recent Assisted Suicide trial as she faced a possible life sentence over her part in the death of her daughter Lynn.
She talks exclusively to Jeremy Vine about the night she helped her bedridden daughter kill herself and explores whether the law should be changed with those on both sides of the debate, including Debbie Purdey and Baroness Campbell."
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Once broadcast, this will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
We have this in the Times Letters to the Editor, today:
Sir, I hope there is a broader cross-section of opinion within the Medical Research Councils expert group on myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) than that expressed by its chairman, Professor Stephen Holgate (Doctors, school, friends thought I was faking it, times2, Jan 25). To say that he recognises theres a real thing here, its not all psychiatric or psychological betrays a lack of understanding of psychological illness that ill serves any practising clinician, let alone one involved in research into ME/CFS. The modern, holistic approach in medical science might almost have been developed with this most puzzling and complex condition in view.
As a former consultant psychiatrist, I had hoped that this dichotomous thinking regarding diseases of the body and diseases of the mind was confined to earlier generations of doctors. Apparently I was mistaken. Perhaps Professor Holgate would like to tell patients struggling to live with bipolar affective disorder or with schizophrenia that their illnesses are not real. I think he would be unwise to do so.
Dr Richard Hawley
Bristol
and I've just read this blog on the Telegraph site:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/a...igue-syndromeme-can-be-real-and-catastrophic/
Because I run a website that is carrying links, I'm exposed to all the media coverage and opinion - good and bad. This morning I have never felt such a strong need to punch a hole through a door.
Suzy