" Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves."
Following from Sykes
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?entries/the-witch-the-python-the-siren-and-the-bunny.1149/
BOTH statements are fallacies. However if you believe the first its irrational and hypocritical to not believe the second. By extension, adding them all up, you would have to conclude the DSM (and ICD equivalents) or almost any psychiatric disorder are not valid disease categories.
Or you can simply admit the fallacy.
There are other arguments about the invalidity of CFS or ME diagnoses. However when you look at most psych diagnoses the picture is likely to be no better. At least ME has objective tests that reliably show pathophysiology, even if they are not yet considered diagnostic, such as NK cell function and the 2 day CPET, or for a subset the Tilt Table Test. While some pathophysiology is known for some psych disorders, its a real hodgepodge.
This blog came to me as I was waking up this morning, right after a dream in which I was exploring the USA as a tourist, on foot. The only gear I was carrying was a swag: http://www.australiandictionary.net/swag
Following from Sykes
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?entries/the-witch-the-python-the-siren-and-the-bunny.1149/
BOTH statements are fallacies. However if you believe the first its irrational and hypocritical to not believe the second. By extension, adding them all up, you would have to conclude the DSM (and ICD equivalents) or almost any psychiatric disorder are not valid disease categories.
Or you can simply admit the fallacy.
There are other arguments about the invalidity of CFS or ME diagnoses. However when you look at most psych diagnoses the picture is likely to be no better. At least ME has objective tests that reliably show pathophysiology, even if they are not yet considered diagnostic, such as NK cell function and the 2 day CPET, or for a subset the Tilt Table Test. While some pathophysiology is known for some psych disorders, its a real hodgepodge.
This blog came to me as I was waking up this morning, right after a dream in which I was exploring the USA as a tourist, on foot. The only gear I was carrying was a swag: http://www.australiandictionary.net/swag