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lightning process

  1. Pyrrhus

    Video: Exposing the Lightning Process (which is being heavily promoted in Norway for ME!)

    The pseudoscientific "Lightning Process" is being heavily promoted in Norway for ME patients. If you're not familiar with the Lightning Process, it is a combination of extreme Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) with a side of cult-like brainwashing. The following are two videos in Norwegian, with...
  2. gbells

    Psychologist David Marks Condemns Lightning Process as a ME Treatment

    Psychologist David Marks has strong words against the Lightning Process as a ME treatment. https://davidfmarks.com/2021/03/15/me-cfs-and-the-lightning-process/