That Brochure was both Sad and hilarious at the same time. SLAM what a fitting acronym. Because after you're done with a round of treatment you'll feel like it was Wham Bam Thank Yo....
Referring to our service
We accept referrals from consultant psychiatrists, community mental health teams, GPs and GP consortia.
Love how they emphasize the mental aspect by listing psychiatrists and mental health teams first. No one could possibly ever read anything negative into that.
My whole family travelled down to London the first time. There was me, my sister and my parents, and we all spoke about what had been happening and had the chance to hear about the available treatments.
Hum treatments as in other then CBT or GET what would those be? They don't mention them in the brochure unless they mean the routine test that "may be ran"
In sessions, we concentrated on my daily schedule. I kept a food diary, sleep diary and a record of my activities, which were useful for reference because it meant I could look back over the weeks, remind myself about my routine and see what had changed. The diaries helped me to be more conscious of what was going on everyday and more accountable for my schedule, among
other things.
I'd love to be able to keep up with those but simply don't have the energy after working a full time job. After this I have little energy left in my energy envelope.
Shopping for food or going out has to be planned, all events have to be planned way ahead of time to make sure theirs even a chance of my having the energy available to do or attend them.
And that's just dealing with my fatigue and low energy symptoms. If my other health symptoms flare up those plans get nixed quickly.
The crazy thing is I'm one of the lucky ones I can manage to work full time but little if anything else. And she has what I have but I couldn't get a diagnosis to save my life beyond FM.
Part of the expectation of being
a successful musician, for me, was to look good and be quite thin, so I was exercising a lot and wasnt eating as much as I should.
This was all done with the best of intentions, pushing myself to make a success of my music, but it was impacting on me. Other emotional things were part of the picture too. My boyfriend moved in with me,which I found stressful,
I just love the mental aspects that they quote and stress from his personal story. No one reading this would ever even entertain a passing notion that this person was burned out or depressed. The Sad thing is this guy sounds like he may very well have ME/CFS.
Evidence based treatment let me guess their evidence shows that everyone is depressed and deconditioned. GET, CBT and Antidepressants for everyone. Now that's Treatment that's Therapy. Do they get some Cool-Aid to go with that?
And I wonder what blood test actually get run on the patients? As well as who does the so called initial evaluation?
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