"Women have wandering wombs which rule their minds, they must be masturbated by their medical professionals to relieve the symptoms of hysteria!"
That was the ACTUAL belief and *practice* of the medical profession for decades.
A large part of the reason for the development of the Hitachi "magic wand" was to rest the over worked hands of "doctors" (seriously)
IMHO the only "sexual abuse" issue with ME/CFS, is that the medical professionals seem to be the ones with an excessive interest in it, so one must ask the question: WHY?
were they abused as children, or does the issue arouse them, or give them excuses to abuse victims?
In any event, they are QUACKS and fraudsters, possibly degenerate perverts, who have bugger all to do with treating the sick.
Those who wrote this paper should be criminally investigated, IMHO, for medical fraud and abuse of patients, possibly worse.
There is no legitimate excuse for conflating a dreadful physical ailment with childhood sexual abuse, NONE.
This kind of bullshit is driven purely by the mentality, arrogance, stupidity or criminality of the so-called "researchers/doctors".
Physical evidence of ME/CFS goes back SIXTY YEARS but has been deliberately ignored.
Freudian psychiatry has been exposed as a twisted inept unscientific load of BULLSHIT, and it ha sno legitimate place in modern medicine.
FYI, from my knowledge, I'd suggest around 1/3rd of all children are sexual or violently abused, all those who say "
oh it's only bad nowadays!" are at best, ignorant, it was RIFE when I was a kid we just didn't see it much or hear of it, I wonder oh I wonder why it was squelched so damned hard by the media etc?
From my own experiences with violence and sadistic abuse, the authorities were far more interested in protecting the "reputations" of their schools etc, than protecting children.
I'm not a psychopath, I have had to deal with actual convicted psychopaths even *as a kid*, and I learned the hard way that the only way to deal with scum is to be utterly merciless and brutal if you wish to survive their appalling actions once they start on you, alas
They have no concepts of respect, moderation, consequences of their actions for others, or compassion.
I've also dealt with sociopaths and people who
chose to be evil.
I am not exaggerating, I have dealt with very,
very malign people
And some of them I kicked their damn balls into cubes
Alas too many children and adults have not had such luck in dealing with the swine, especially because of the cowards, perverts, sadists, stupid and selfish bastards who help cover such stuff up.
Fortunately, the vast majority of my friends, family neighbours etc, were lovely people
(same with most any people anywhere in the world!)
Human vermin are rare, it's just they go out of their way to cause trouble and thus their evil deeds are out of proportion for their numbers, and you remember trauma much more than cuddles and laughter because of the danger.
So if sexual abuse of children was the cause of ME/CFS or other "medically unexplained illness", the incidence would be truly catastrophic and you'd have
hundreds of millions or even a billion or more with the illnesses.
I'd have these words BURNED a foot high into the walls of the British Medical Association with a plasma cutter as a lesson and warning for history.