Countrygirl
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Unfortunately @arboretum this is how it is applied in the cases who contact me. They are told it is a psychiatric condition, and, in the case of children, the fault of the parent (MbyP) and that they need to be taken away by the state and locked up in a psychiartic ward.
Someone else near me who has severe ME has been on the phone to me in a distressed state because she is terrified of being sectioned again by the local fatique clinic as she can't increase her exercise limit. Eariier, they locked her away far from her home for having severe ME.
Others phone me with ME telling me that they are being forced to take antipsychotics to relieve them of their delusional belief that they have a fictitious illness called ME. Severe ME is not recognised and is misinterpreted.
The above is what happens at fatigue clinics.......not all perhaps...........but it is not uncommon.
A medical advisor for ME has read the document and liked it.
Someone else near me who has severe ME has been on the phone to me in a distressed state because she is terrified of being sectioned again by the local fatique clinic as she can't increase her exercise limit. Eariier, they locked her away far from her home for having severe ME.
Others phone me with ME telling me that they are being forced to take antipsychotics to relieve them of their delusional belief that they have a fictitious illness called ME. Severe ME is not recognised and is misinterpreted.
The above is what happens at fatigue clinics.......not all perhaps...........but it is not uncommon.
A medical advisor for ME has read the document and liked it.