Hi Martin,
You are aware of the power Simon Wessely wields, aren't you? He seems to be on every advisory committee.
The guidelines under which we receive our "care" from the NHS are strongly influenced by his hypothesis that 'CFS is a somatic condition and can be treated with Graded Exercise and CBT' and by the widening of the diagnostic guidelines that he was instrumental in to the Oxford Criteria, whereas the true ME patient is better described by the Canadian Consensus Criteria which
you can view here
His name is on many studies, some purporting to show that there is no XMRV in the UK, and some that CBT and GET are curative for our physical illness. The WPI response to his XMRV study retrovirologist is revealing.
Link to the PDF on this page (April 10th)
It was these Wessely influenced NICE guidelines that led a neurologist and a GP to section Sophia Mirza, forcibly removing her from her home where she was being well cared for, because they thought the family had 'inappropriate illness beliefs', to a mental institution where denied the physical care she needed - through ignorance or neglect - a short time later she died.
Never mind the case of Ean Proctor. And the others. You can find all the evidence online. So perhaps because
a/. The mans work has denied myalgic encephomylitis sufferers any real medical help, whereas Dr Myhill tries to work with the science
b/. Wessely has also cast a negative image of sick people which colours the way our families, friend and work colleagues treat us, whereas Dr Myhill has talked truth about the realities we face
c/. The effect of his mission to psychologise the causation of ME/CFS has made it harder for us to get the state support we need to survive, and the effort involved in that also causes relapses for which we are denied help or biomedical tests that are actually relevent to this illness, because of Wessely's work, while Dr Myhill does arrange appropriate tests and treatments.
