Useful article if anyone needs reminding that the CBT model for CFS is annoying.
Yes, it sure is annoying if by annoying you mean:
*contributes to people with diagnosable conditions that aren't ME suffering needlessly and perhaps even dying as a result of their conditions
Where abnormalities are revealed on physical or laboratory investigation, further investigations can be helpful ... but should otherwise be limited to avoid the risk of iatrogenic harm.
*contributes to patients blaming themselves when the bogus treatments don't work and despairing, perhaps to the point of suiciding
*contributes to the family, friends and employers of the patient blaming the patient when the bogus treatment doesn't work, leading to the patient despairing, perhaps to the point of suiciding, or having to cope with little support
*contributes to governments being satisfied that there are useful treatments for ME and so not listening to calls for the research that might bring understanding about this disease, and treatments
*contributes to patients wasting their precious energy on treatments that don't work and engaging with therapists who aren't telling them what they are really thinking - perhaps to the point where the illness is made worse by attempts to follow bogus protocols
*contributes to patients and governments wasting much money on treatments that don't work
I could go on.. But yes, I'm annoyed.
