We know that the British psych lobby claim that childhood trauma is associated to CFS. They claim this is evidence based by getting patients with F48.0 chronic fatigue (not CFS) to fill in questionnaires. They also don't reveal that many in society also claim this, who don't have CFS! (Thus reducing the correlation between trauma and CFS).
But if we look at the diagnostic criteria for even the more stringent Fukuda CFS, we know that as CFS patients don't have inclusionary disease based tests for anything to do with ME or Lyme.
This includes organic anxiety, therefore the mental health symptoms of organic CFS can be falsely associated to mental health claims by psychiatrists of psych chronic fatigue. Consequently the organic CFS patient with anxiety incorrectly believes or is told by the psychiatrist, their anxiety is associated to their CFS, of a psychological nature.
For example in CFS (which includes ME and Lyme as midiagnosis is huge) the main culprits for anxiety in CFS are:
Neuro inflammation
Infection leading to activation of the CNS
Severe pain states, including neuropathic pain
Balance disorder (dizziness and vertigo can induce anxieties)
Sleep disorder (lack of sleep can induce anxiety - lack of sleep elevates cytokines/pain
Chronic CNS disorder due to pathogenesis of the disease (such as ME, Lyme)
Problems with blood flow to the brain, heart, lungs and elevated CNS lactate
Nutritional deficiencies leading to increased incidence of anxiety
Blood disorders leading to anxiety
Changes in blood sugar and insulin.
Allergies and Asthma
And so forth. Many reasons, organic based, that are all missed and never checked for onc ethe patient has he CFS label and is embedded in CBT, GET and at best, 'Pacing'.
All of these testable *but missed* reasons for anxiety in 'CFS' are part of the underlying disease pathogenesis of ME and Lyme. Two conditions commonly misdiagnosed as CFS.
In CFS there is a disease (s) and as psychiatrists don't manage disease, and as Fukuda CFS criteria doesn't require them to either, it's all perfectly legal to hoodwink patient down the wrong route of medical intervention - self exploration of past childhood trauma.
Through insufficient testing of CFS sufferers (due to pathetic diagnostic criteria with lax screening tools), we have the scandalous situation that CFS patients end up on Ritalin for their 'ADHD' (requires no test, or their alleged mind-body 'Anxiety Disorder' (requires no test) or their 'Agoraphobia' (requires no test) because the CFS patient believes,
or is coerced to believe that getting locked in the cupboard by Uncle Buck lead
to this in later life.
This is why British iron first Psychiatry getting anywhere near ME or Lyme (as CFS) is incredibly dangerous and leads to ME, Lyme patients being unaware their life time of 'unexplained anxiety', was organic all along and often treatable all along,and that is why psych drugs failed in these patients.