Re: CBT not harmful in chronic fatigue (Irish Medical Times. 18 Mar 2011)

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drjohn

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Re: Cognitive behavioural therapy not harmful in chronic fatigue (Irish Medical Times, 18 March 2011)

To read a letter from Dr John Greensmith
click http://www.mefreeforall.org/index.php?id=2696#c10331

Any letters in response should be sent to e-mail address
editor@imt.ie

We have introduced a new system of inviting co-signatories for letters by signing up to a petition. If you wish to co-sign, click on the short link below. Or you may prefer to send your own e-mail to the letters editor or add a comment below the news item. The more of us who do, the better the chance of at least one being published.

Cheers
John
drjohngreensmith@mefreeforall.org
Dr John H Greensmith
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Thanks Dr. Greensmith!

I posted a comment
I endorse the excellent comments of Dr. Greensmith.

The pernicious version of CBT used in this study (telling patients they don’t have a somatic disease and that the only proven treatment is graded exercise) may work for “chronic fatigue”, but has been proven to be harmful to pw ME (“CFS”).

You are a medical news source; I expect more than the ‘i heard it on Oprah’ version of medical news.
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Dolphin said:
They published one letter this week: http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/03/caveat-needed-on-safe-and-effective-declaration.html

Plenty of time to get in another letter - they published five over a number of weeks last year as I said.
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Actually three letters this week (they put up two more today) including one from John Greensmith:

http://bit.ly/emo0Dw i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/the-pace-study-is-out-of-step-with-mecfs.html

http://bit.ly/hMGCUx i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/03/caveat-needed-on-safe-and-effective-declaration.html

http://bit.ly/eP8EfR i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/p...for-the-‘biggest-rift’-among-me-patients.html

Thanks to anybody else who wrote in - they might still put up your letter.
 
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Dolphin said:
Actually three letters this week (they put up two more today) including one from John Greensmith:

http://bit.ly/emo0Dw i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/the-pace-study-is-out-of-step-with-mecfs.html

http://bit.ly/hMGCUx i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/03/caveat-needed-on-safe-and-effective-declaration.html

http://bit.ly/eP8EfR i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/p...for-the-‘biggest-rift’-among-me-patients.html

Thanks to anybody else who wrote in - they might still put up your letter.
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4th letter published this week.

http://bit.ly/f0noE0
i.e.
http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/04/caution-is-still-required-on-get-and-me.html

I wonder will we top the 5 they published in reply to a piece last year.
 
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