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editorial@dailymailonline.co.uk
Dear Mr Dacre
I am writing to complain about your offensive online poll 'Do you think ME is a genuine illness?'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1015226
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis has been classified as a physical neurological illness by the World health Organisation since 1969. Your poll is just as offensive one as asking whether MS, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's are genuine illnesses.
There have been a number of recorded deaths from M.E., including Sophie Mirza's:
http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/
and premature death is known to occur in a majority of sufferers from either cancer or heart disease. A quarter of all sufferers are house or bed bound, some spending their lives in darkened rooms in a living death of intractable pain, unable to talk, walk, swallow or even open their eyes. A horrifying number have committed suicide because they are unable to cope with the illness, the pain and the contempt they receive from the medical profession instead of treatment.
I have been severely affected for 22 years during which tome all UK taxpayer funding for my debilitating, incredibly painful illness has gone to members of the psychiatric profession who have built their lucrative careers on pretending M.E. is imaginary and thereby saved the NHS, the private insurance firms and the DWP they work for a huge amount of money.
We desperately need properly funded biomedical research and treatment, not psychobabble and being presented in the media as malingerers ( which your poll contributes to). At the moment tiny charities such as ME Research UK are undertaking all the biomedical research into an illness that affects a quarter of a million UK residents.
Please remove your poll,
editorial@dailymailonline.co.uk
Dear Mr Dacre
I am writing to complain about your offensive online poll 'Do you think ME is a genuine illness?'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1015226
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis has been classified as a physical neurological illness by the World health Organisation since 1969. Your poll is just as offensive one as asking whether MS, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's are genuine illnesses.
There have been a number of recorded deaths from M.E., including Sophie Mirza's:
http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/
and premature death is known to occur in a majority of sufferers from either cancer or heart disease. A quarter of all sufferers are house or bed bound, some spending their lives in darkened rooms in a living death of intractable pain, unable to talk, walk, swallow or even open their eyes. A horrifying number have committed suicide because they are unable to cope with the illness, the pain and the contempt they receive from the medical profession instead of treatment.
I have been severely affected for 22 years during which tome all UK taxpayer funding for my debilitating, incredibly painful illness has gone to members of the psychiatric profession who have built their lucrative careers on pretending M.E. is imaginary and thereby saved the NHS, the private insurance firms and the DWP they work for a huge amount of money.
We desperately need properly funded biomedical research and treatment, not psychobabble and being presented in the media as malingerers ( which your poll contributes to). At the moment tiny charities such as ME Research UK are undertaking all the biomedical research into an illness that affects a quarter of a million UK residents.
Please remove your poll,
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