I was hoping that this was going to be another article like the one in the German Brigitte, and it seemed to start well, but unfortunately I had to stop reading at "My 15-year old self wants to jump across the desk and hug her". Anecdotes and revelation instead of evidence? If that's what she's into it's up to her I suppose, just wish such harmful rubbish didn't get published. She seems happy to accept the leap of faith from blushing and having a nervous stomach to psychosomatic causes of disease without question in her eagerness to experience her revelatory moment.
Some of those factiods down the middle don't ring true either -
70% of patients who suffer psychsomatic illnesses are women - how can you have 70% of zero and assign a gender to it?
People with MUS visit their doctor twice as often as other people - can we define the control group a bit more specifically than "other people"? Patients with other illnesses? People who aren't ill? If anecdotal evidence is allowed, I haven't been to my Dr for about a year, which means "other people" go every 2 years at the most, which I know isn't true because my neighbour went last week and she hasn't got ME.
The misdiagnosis rate in people with psychosomatic neurological symptoms is only 4% - Not quite sure I understand what this means, a claim that O'Sullivan and her ilk are only wrong 4% of the time? I'd put her misdiagnosis rate at closer to 100% myself.
Don't suffer in silence - at last some good advice, ME patients have stopped suffering in silence, and calling it trolling, vexatious or whatever you want will not silence anybody.
I thought PVFS was less than 6 months and cleared up, so not the same as ME?