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WARNING: VERY DISTRESSING VIDEO THAT SHOWS CARLA SCREAMING DUE TO HER TREATMENT UNDER SECTIONING.
Psychiatrist Dr Michael Yousef, ex-colleague of psychiatrist Prof Michael Sharpe, is the 'doctor' in charge of her 'treatment'.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/11/05/carla-very-severe-mecfs-tribunal/
The Canary.
Very severe ME/CFS patient LOSES appeal over sectioning, family says staff now ‘abusing’ her
Carla, a very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient has lost her appeal against West Middlesex hospital. Doctors sectioned Carla Naoum under the Mental Health Act as they believed her extreme gastrointestinal pain was partly or fully psychosomatic. However, her father has hit back – claiming that staff are now treating her worse than before.
Doctors have now convinced themselves that her severe gastrointestinal pain is partly or fully psychosomatic. The psychiatrist who did her Section 2 assessment told Carla’s father that:
the physical is always related to the mental
Or words to that effect. West Middlesex Hospital is now saying that her GI pain, along with her seizures, are psychosomatic. She is still unable to take adequate nutrition, therefore her ‘made up’ GI pain is posing a risk to herself – ergo she needs to be sectioned.
She is now under the ‘care’ of psychiatrist Dr Michael Yousif – an NHS liaison psychiatrist who worked with professor Michael Sharpe at Oxford. Sharpe was one of the authors of the PACE trial, and has maintained until this day that exercise and talking therapy can make ME patient’s better. This is based on partly the idea that the illness has an element of the psychomatic within it. This is despite Sharpe’s work being repeatedly proven to be false; ‘fraudulent‘, as some people have accused it of being.
As the Canary wrote at the time about Carla and very severe ME/CFS:
Saying her GI pain is partly or fully psychosomatic is demonstrable nonsense. Any gastrologist with half a brain cell or the ability to do a cursory Google search would realise this. Carla, like so many other women in this cases, clearly lives with gastroparesis and dysphagia as well. They are well documented – and go some way to explaining why severe ME/CFS patients end up being tube fed........................
Psychiatrist Dr Michael Yousef, ex-colleague of psychiatrist Prof Michael Sharpe, is the 'doctor' in charge of her 'treatment'.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/11/05/carla-very-severe-mecfs-tribunal/
The Canary.
Very severe ME/CFS patient LOSES appeal over sectioning, family says staff now ‘abusing’ her
Carla, a very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient has lost her appeal against West Middlesex hospital. Doctors sectioned Carla Naoum under the Mental Health Act as they believed her extreme gastrointestinal pain was partly or fully psychosomatic. However, her father has hit back – claiming that staff are now treating her worse than before.
Carla very severe ME/CFS ‘psychiatric’
As the Canary previously reported, you can read part of Carla’s story here. She has now been in West Middlesex Hospital for over seven months. Late on Thursday 17 October, an external psychiatrist and a nurse assessed Carla and deemed she met the criteria to be sectioned; in effect weaponising the Mental Health Act.Doctors have now convinced themselves that her severe gastrointestinal pain is partly or fully psychosomatic. The psychiatrist who did her Section 2 assessment told Carla’s father that:
the physical is always related to the mental
Or words to that effect. West Middlesex Hospital is now saying that her GI pain, along with her seizures, are psychosomatic. She is still unable to take adequate nutrition, therefore her ‘made up’ GI pain is posing a risk to herself – ergo she needs to be sectioned.
She is now under the ‘care’ of psychiatrist Dr Michael Yousif – an NHS liaison psychiatrist who worked with professor Michael Sharpe at Oxford. Sharpe was one of the authors of the PACE trial, and has maintained until this day that exercise and talking therapy can make ME patient’s better. This is based on partly the idea that the illness has an element of the psychomatic within it. This is despite Sharpe’s work being repeatedly proven to be false; ‘fraudulent‘, as some people have accused it of being.
As the Canary wrote at the time about Carla and very severe ME/CFS:
Saying her GI pain is partly or fully psychosomatic is demonstrable nonsense. Any gastrologist with half a brain cell or the ability to do a cursory Google search would realise this. Carla, like so many other women in this cases, clearly lives with gastroparesis and dysphagia as well. They are well documented – and go some way to explaining why severe ME/CFS patients end up being tube fed........................
