sarah darwins
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This opinion piece by Simon Wessely is essentially about mental illness and approaches to it. He's mostly bigging up psychiatry (and psychiatrists), but there's at least one interesting ME thread in the comments section, a bit of which I'll quote below. Comments can be ordered by 'recommendation' (= likes).
Edit - LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/29/drugs-talking-mental-health
One line in the main article, however, really caught my eye:
One commenter — sirebrum — picks up on that:
Another commenter — gherkingirl — writes:
Edit - LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/29/drugs-talking-mental-health
One line in the main article, however, really caught my eye:
Psychiatrists are pragmatists who use the best approach for an individual patient, without being too constrained by any specific school of thought.
One commenter — sirebrum — picks up on that:
Quote from this article:
"Psychiatrists are pragmatists who use the best approach for an individual patient, without being too constrained by any specific school of thought."
So why your blind and dogmatic adherence to the unproven and unsubstantiated "Bio-Psycho-Social-Model" you and your ilk invented?
Another commenter — gherkingirl — writes:
Thanks to Wessely's insistence on seeing ME as a pyschiatric disorder and not an neuro-immune condition, I have been unable to get treatment for either my ME or my mental health conditions for the past 5 years.
I did the CBT based system for ME/CFS at King's and while it helped me pace my ME and improve quite a bit and live with it better, it unsurprisingly didn't cure my physical symptoms such as severe muscle pain, digestive issues and problems with blood volume causing dizziness. In fact feeling less fatigue made me more aware of those physical symptoms and attempt to be treated for them too.
When I asked for that I was removed from the list for mental health services specifically for anxiety and an eating disorder at the same hospital for being 'non compliant' and told that if I wouldn't accept my ME was a mental illness, I must be making the other ones up and wouldn't be treated there for them.
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