I always anticipate the worst, so this wasn't too bad. I thought the ME guest, Graeme, did very well under the pressure of a live studio talk show. He did make a gaffe re the "emotional" aspects of the illness, but as he immediately went on to describe his photosensitivity, he clearly had meant the "neurological" aspects of being oversensitive to certain stimuli.
I would have preferred that the programme had stuck with the original premise, discussed the day before, of the perceived stigma attached to ME, rather than attempting to cover the vast topic of the NHS failing ME patients.
I was pleased that the host, Matthew Wright, attempted to draw a distinction between "chronic fatigue" and ME/CFS. What wasn't addressed was that the NHS only provides treatment clinics suitable for chronic fatigue patients and that these are not appropriate for moderate/severe ME/CFS patients. The NHS in most areas of the UK appears to be incapable of telling the two conditions apart and is still relying heavily on a psychological bias.
ME is not allocated proportional funding for research nor do pwME receive adequate care because we are still struggling to convince large swathes of the population, including members of the medical profession, that we actually are "quite poorly indeed".
Then, when MP Ms Dorries goes on to spout that as far as she is aware 97% of pwME recover with time, why bother funding anything? Let's just wait until the lazy beggars get bored of doing nothing and venture back to work.
Not sure whether it's stigma or plain ignorance but this view needs to change and I wish that this had been discussed, instead of the NHS, as was previously planned.