Can you quantify the improvements you have made on mind/body programmes? The level of ME/CFS is often measured on the scale of
mild, moderate and severe. May I ask, where were you on this scale before you did these programmes, and where did you end up after?
Also, are there any
objective measures of improvement that you observed, as opposed to
subjective measures of improvement?
An objective measure of improvement might be for example: previously you were not able to walk the 20 minute return journey to the shops without serious PEM repercussion; but after some treatment, you then found you could do this walk without too much difficulty.
Or there might be a difficult mental task that your were not able to do because of brain fog, but after some treatment, you found you could now do this task. This is another objective measure.
Whereas subjective measures are just how you subjectively feel about yourself terms of you current brain fog level, or energy level. The trouble with mind/body treatments is that all the positive thinking these often involve can make you subjectively think that your symptoms have improved, whereas in fact they may not have improved in any objective sense.
Positive thinking might however have some medical effects, in that for example it may raise dopamine levels in the brain, which then could have some disease modifying action. I wrote about such concepts in
this post. So if postive thinking does it for you, then it may be a useful treatment option.
But I would stress that because positive thinking can alter the way you subjective feel about yourself and your symptoms, I would only use objective measures of improvement to gauge whether you have made any progress from mind/body therapies.