This bit grabbed my attention:
"A previous high level athlete and school teacher, he was experiencing overwhelming and disabling fatigue. So there I was, new kid on the block in a strange country, faced with a condition I had never heard off (sic)
and a very distressed patient. Still to this day I regret the fact that I wasn’t much help to Mr X. I subsequently learned that he more than likely had CFS/ME and so began my research career. 25 years later I am confident that if I knew then what I know now – I could have made a difference to this patient."
What difference does she think she could have made exactly?
It's very telling that just as in the "Rachel" chapter of
"It's all in Your Head", where O'Sullivan abandons her narrative with her patient completely uncured, whilst apparently hoping she has convinced the reader that just a bit more CBT would have done the trick, Moss-Morris does a similar thing in claiming she could have made a difference to this athlete. When she has so safely positioned herself at a remove of a quarter of a century from the patient, how can we ever disprove her claim?
Not content with holding to psychogenic theories that are completely untestable, these "doctors" can't show us a single real example of a seriously ill ME/CFS patient who has been cured by their brand of therapy. And yet they expect people to take their claptrap seriously.
They need psychiatric help, these doctors, more assuredly than most of the people they claim to be able to help and whose illness they recklessly claim to understand.