PRS is NOT in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) for Psychiatric Disorders, which is the standard for all licensed mental health professionals for diagnosis.
Here are the Symptoms of "PRS" as listed in wikipedia.
- A) Partial or complete refusal in three or more of the following areas: (1) eating, (2) moving, (3) speech, (4) interest to personal care
- B) Active and angry resistance to acts of help and support
- C) Social withdrawal and school refusal
- D) No organic condition accounts for the severity of the degree of symptoms
- E) No other psychiatric disorder could better account for the symptoms
- F) The endangered state of the patient requires hospitalization[7]
This sounds like CFS to me, but whoever made this up is calling it psychiatric because they can't figure out any organic condition that "accounts for the severity and degree of symptoms". Sound familiar? UGH.
These kids all need a good workup from a real ME/CFS expert who will test for NK cell activity, metabolomics, viral stuff, et al.
BTW, as I'm sure many of you know, when caregivers do things that cause an ME/CFS patient to crash, the patient can definitely get angry and resist having the caregiver do anything. It makes them worse. Severe patients need to be alone most of the time with as little stimulation as possible to avoid crashing. We have sure learned that painfully over time!
It seems similar to diagnosing Munchausens.
This is all a complete travesty.
I am just so so upset to think about her patients and what is happening to them. OMG.