Cinders66
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For Simon we were lab rats and specimens , not sick people.
Interesting he said about thinking it was a type of depression. I got sick in the 90s and had terrible NHS care from the 1996 around the time the Royal colleges CFS report came out. The report presented ME as atypical depression and there's a YouTube clip of Wessely as spokesman for the report on ITN news. He emphasises how important the psychological is in this illness. My NHS care 1996 onwards was lots of GPs treating me as a psychological or depressed case , it was pre internet days and I fell for their assertive dismissal , and I went from house bound to bed ridden. All of this is not ok and the fact that Wessely regards critics of all that at that time as a militant minority who had no right to criticise is astonishing.
Also around this time Simon Wessely gifted the ME community with a replacement name that's loved so much, CFS. I mean what wasn't there to like about Simon Wessely ?
Interesting he said about thinking it was a type of depression. I got sick in the 90s and had terrible NHS care from the 1996 around the time the Royal colleges CFS report came out. The report presented ME as atypical depression and there's a YouTube clip of Wessely as spokesman for the report on ITN news. He emphasises how important the psychological is in this illness. My NHS care 1996 onwards was lots of GPs treating me as a psychological or depressed case , it was pre internet days and I fell for their assertive dismissal , and I went from house bound to bed ridden. All of this is not ok and the fact that Wessely regards critics of all that at that time as a militant minority who had no right to criticise is astonishing.
Also around this time Simon Wessely gifted the ME community with a replacement name that's loved so much, CFS. I mean what wasn't there to like about Simon Wessely ?
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