Snowdrop
Rebel without a biscuit
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My individual belief is that MY illness is my body giving up after too many physical AND psychological stressors,
Possibly you misunderstand some of those who propose a biological model only.
Psychological anything arises from the body. There is no psychological phenomena without physical underpinnings.
In other words, you feel stressed by your job, relationship or whatever? Some people would not see it as stress by would thrive on it or at the very least be resilient to it. Why? Yes, some of it is coping style, but coping can and is learned by anyone.
It's because we have certain vulnerabilities in the chemical pathways of our body that particular psychological stressors affect us as they do.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that things like meditation, breathing, relaxation and trying to keep a positive attitude are not helpful and many who think about ME as above use such tools to help them with this illness.
There are Psychological schools out there that as you probably know want to offer only psychological treatments (they're cheap and easy)
for this biological illness. While they are having to give way to the idea that ME just might be physical in origin they continue to insist that it is the PWME who perpetuates the illness because of false illness beliefs and because we don't deal well with stress (as in we have poor coping skills). That psychology is the problem.