justinreilly
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Here is a book that is pretty offensive about ME, saying we are hypochondriacs with "no evidence at all of physical illness" and even comparing us to "pathetic" drug addicts (see my review below).
Pls leave a short review with one star (you can be very brief and just say it is inaccurate on ME) so this guy gets the message. Giving one star reviews does lower sales which hits these garbage authors in the wallet and also limits the spread of this misinformation. You can also click "Yes" at the bottom of reviews you like (such as mine : ) ). Thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/Humanizing-Ma...eurosciences/dp/1932690395/ref=cm_rdp_product
While you're at it, pls copy and paste your review to Amazon UK and Canada (you don't need to sign in again, you will automatically be signed in from your Amazon.com account):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1932690395/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1932690395/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
Pls leave a short review with one star (you can be very brief and just say it is inaccurate on ME) so this guy gets the message. Giving one star reviews does lower sales which hits these garbage authors in the wallet and also limits the spread of this misinformation. You can also click "Yes" at the bottom of reviews you like (such as mine : ) ). Thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/Humanizing-Ma...eurosciences/dp/1932690395/ref=cm_rdp_product
While you're at it, pls copy and paste your review to Amazon UK and Canada (you don't need to sign in again, you will automatically be signed in from your Amazon.com account):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1932690395/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1932690395/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
Inaccurate on ME ("CFS"), adrenal exhaustion, MCS, Gulf War Syndrome and even agent orange posioning, labeling these all as hypochondriasis. ME is a severe neuro-immune disease. Pls correct this. Refer to 2011 ME International Consensus Criteria and 2003 ME/CFS Canadian Consensus Criteria. Neuro-immune diseases are not Madness and the author's approach is hardly Humanizing.
from p.192:
"Hypochondriacal States
...The term indicates a person with an unhealthy preoccupation with matters of health, illness, etc., who is convinced he has an illness, but who has no evidence at all of physical illness...However, in dealing with these patients, we have to be very careful because if the psychiatrist doesn't take a patient's complaints of illness seriously, then the next person to do so may be the pathologist...
The same cycle of self-reinforcing panic can be seen in opiate addicts... Simply giving them an injection causes them immediate relief for which they are often pathetically grateful...
Some of the names for it are benign meningoencephalomyelitis (which is more benign than it sounds), total allergy syndrome or twentieth century allergy, chronic fatigue syndrome, adrenal exhaustion and a huge range of poisonings and toxicities not forgetting effort syndrome, Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome.
The symptoms of these protean disorders just are the symptoms of anxiety and the grumbling depression caused by chronic anxiety. The same symptoms are up for grabs for anybody who needs a label to conceal the fact that he is anxious."