I'm starting to consider that the "blame" for the efforts of all these psychologizers, CBTers, GETers, actually does not lie with them, but with the people who know it's really physiological and who aren't doing anything about demonstrating it.
We know that the cell and mitochondrial energy metabolism is deranged in CFS, and Myhill has a test for that. Why isn't this test more widely available? Why won't they make it available to anyone outside the UK? Why won't anyone outside the UK develop a similar test? That's the problem. If that test were more widely available, it would definitely provide a reasonably reliable marker for CFS.
Once that were the case, it could then be easily demonstrated that CBT, GET, or any of that cr4p doesn't change the results of the test one bit, and that therefore they are not effective therapies. Maybe even the opposite of effective in GET. Then the psychologizers would have absolutely nothing to say.
The blame for this predicament is on the people who, for whatever reason - whether a failure of imagination or initiative, or a desire to continue making money off of CFS patients - refuse to standardize a mitochondrial profile test that would not only provide a marker for CFS, but would finally shut up the psychologizers for good. We already have a model for it in the ATP Profile test. There is absolutely no reason why a test like that can't become more widespread and adopted as a standard test for CFS. That would end the entire debate.
We know that the cell and mitochondrial energy metabolism is deranged in CFS, and Myhill has a test for that. Why isn't this test more widely available? Why won't they make it available to anyone outside the UK? Why won't anyone outside the UK develop a similar test? That's the problem. If that test were more widely available, it would definitely provide a reasonably reliable marker for CFS.
Once that were the case, it could then be easily demonstrated that CBT, GET, or any of that cr4p doesn't change the results of the test one bit, and that therefore they are not effective therapies. Maybe even the opposite of effective in GET. Then the psychologizers would have absolutely nothing to say.
The blame for this predicament is on the people who, for whatever reason - whether a failure of imagination or initiative, or a desire to continue making money off of CFS patients - refuse to standardize a mitochondrial profile test that would not only provide a marker for CFS, but would finally shut up the psychologizers for good. We already have a model for it in the ATP Profile test. There is absolutely no reason why a test like that can't become more widespread and adopted as a standard test for CFS. That would end the entire debate.