Don't know if this article has been posted:
http://skepdic.com/lightningprocess.html
(from 2015)
"
Daniel Clark, who has expressed
concerns about Crawley's work before, has some concerns about this study:
....the Lightning Process RCT being carried out by Esther Crawley
changed it's primary outcome measure from school attendance to scores on a self-report questionnaire. Given that LP involves making claims to patients about their own ability to control symptoms in exactly the sort of way likely to lead to response bias,
it seems very likely that this trial will now find LP to be 'effective'. One of the problems with EBM is that it is often difficult to reliably measure the outcomes that are important to patients and account for the biases that occur in non-blinded trials, allowing for exaggerated claims of efficacy to be made to patients. "
"a common explanation for
long-term fatigue given by LP folks is something called the “Physical Emergency Response,” which seems to be a repackaging of
Hans Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome.
Chronic fatigue is the body's reaction to stress. My correspondent describes the theory: "When a stress-causing stimulus produces the “fight or flight” response a number of hormones are released and if these higher than normal hormone levels remain high for extended periods, one can suffer from restlessness, insomnia, fatigue, poor immune response and other symptoms."
The LP folks maintain that people who are chronically fatigued are stuck in a physiological Catch-22 that continually puts stress on the body causing their lethargy.
But it is unlikely that in the short period of time that LP is performed that any continual monitoring of hormones is done. The explanation sounds like backdrop that may or may not be true but is irrelevant to the treatment, which seems to be
standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)."
Also includes a good step by step (or should that be stop by stop) description of the LP course.
