- Messages
- 1,446
.
.
Lightning Process has been very heavily promoted in Norway with much publicity, by a Practitioner called Live Landmark, and by Paediatrician Dr Vergard Bruun Wyller, who is referred to in the Aftenposten letter from the 6 Norwegan Professors:
“One of the foremost proponents of stress theory and a very important agenda for Norwegian ME politics until now, Vegard Bruun Wyller, tested this hypothesis in a study using clonidine on young ME patients. This drug reduces the autonomic nervous system.
Treatment gave no effect, Wyller was unable to prove his theories.”
Bruun Wyller constructs ME as a stress response. Phil Parker had relied on Bruun Wyller and his earlier research and articles to gain 'science' credibility and publicity for Lightning Process in Norway, and elsewhere.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In 2011 in Norway, the family of a youngster who had attempted to take their own life after doing Lightning Process and not recovering from ME, went public. There was then an outpouring of statements from others with ME who had done Lightning Process but became more ill as a result, and felt guilty or ashamed when they did not recover, or became more ill..
http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.nrk.no/helse-forbruk-og-livsstil/1.7891470&act=url
‘13-year-old attempted suicide after ME courses’ [Lightning Process]
‘The family hoped the 13-year-old with fatigue syndrome should be well on course "Lightning Process." Instead he got breakdown and tried to take his life.’
…..‘It was Chief Vegard Bruun Wyller who told the family of 13-year-old about the Lightning Process.
NRK.no asked Bruun Wyller if he has any qualms about sending ME sick children at LP course when you know that someone gets sicker of it, and even tried to take his own life.
Wyller would not comment on individual cases.’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Lightning Process commercial Website
http://lightningprocess.com/research/
‘Dr. Bruun Wyller, who is considered to be one of Norway’s leading experts on ME, has published some interesting articles which concur with the clinical findings of the Phil Parker Lightning Process, which you can find here (1) (2). His most recent paper in conjunction with Hege R. Eriksen, Kirsti Malterud who are university researchers from Bergen, can be found here (3).
Dr. Bruun Wyller says: “Recent research on CFS pathophysiology has revealed alterations of cardiovascular regulation and thermoregulation, characterized by enhanced sympathetic nervous activity and increased secretion of epinephrine. These findings indicate a state of permanent distress response – sustained arousal – in CFS patients. Based upon our findings, we have formulated a theory of sustained arousal in CFS, which seems to correspond quite neatly to the theoretical considerations underlying the Lightning Process.” ’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
But Bruun Wyller's more recent clonidine study did not support his stress theories about ME.
.
.
Lightning Process has been very heavily promoted in Norway with much publicity, by a Practitioner called Live Landmark, and by Paediatrician Dr Vergard Bruun Wyller, who is referred to in the Aftenposten letter from the 6 Norwegan Professors:
“One of the foremost proponents of stress theory and a very important agenda for Norwegian ME politics until now, Vegard Bruun Wyller, tested this hypothesis in a study using clonidine on young ME patients. This drug reduces the autonomic nervous system.
Treatment gave no effect, Wyller was unable to prove his theories.”
Bruun Wyller constructs ME as a stress response. Phil Parker had relied on Bruun Wyller and his earlier research and articles to gain 'science' credibility and publicity for Lightning Process in Norway, and elsewhere.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In 2011 in Norway, the family of a youngster who had attempted to take their own life after doing Lightning Process and not recovering from ME, went public. There was then an outpouring of statements from others with ME who had done Lightning Process but became more ill as a result, and felt guilty or ashamed when they did not recover, or became more ill..
http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=no&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http://www.nrk.no/helse-forbruk-og-livsstil/1.7891470&act=url
‘13-year-old attempted suicide after ME courses’ [Lightning Process]
‘The family hoped the 13-year-old with fatigue syndrome should be well on course "Lightning Process." Instead he got breakdown and tried to take his life.’
…..‘It was Chief Vegard Bruun Wyller who told the family of 13-year-old about the Lightning Process.
NRK.no asked Bruun Wyller if he has any qualms about sending ME sick children at LP course when you know that someone gets sicker of it, and even tried to take his own life.
Wyller would not comment on individual cases.’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Lightning Process commercial Website
http://lightningprocess.com/research/
‘Dr. Bruun Wyller, who is considered to be one of Norway’s leading experts on ME, has published some interesting articles which concur with the clinical findings of the Phil Parker Lightning Process, which you can find here (1) (2). His most recent paper in conjunction with Hege R. Eriksen, Kirsti Malterud who are university researchers from Bergen, can be found here (3).
Dr. Bruun Wyller says: “Recent research on CFS pathophysiology has revealed alterations of cardiovascular regulation and thermoregulation, characterized by enhanced sympathetic nervous activity and increased secretion of epinephrine. These findings indicate a state of permanent distress response – sustained arousal – in CFS patients. Based upon our findings, we have formulated a theory of sustained arousal in CFS, which seems to correspond quite neatly to the theoretical considerations underlying the Lightning Process.” ’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
But Bruun Wyller's more recent clonidine study did not support his stress theories about ME.
.
Last edited: