tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post8968929627488950600..comments2024-03-13T09:08:55.969-07:00Comments on Slightly Alive: My letter to APA on Somatic Symptom DisorderMary Schweitzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11583106682242141031noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-1979520843797662802021-08-19T15:26:36.793-07:002021-08-19T15:26:36.793-07:00I was diagnosed as HEPATITIS B carrier in 2013 wit...I was diagnosed as HEPATITIS B carrier in 2013 with fibrosis of the<br />liver already present. I started on antiviral medications which<br />reduced the viral load initially. After a couple of years the virus<br />became resistant. I started on HEPATITIS B Herbal treatment from<br />ULTIMATE LIFE CLINIC (www.ultimatelifeclinic.com) in March, 2020. Their<br />treatment totally reversed the virus. I did another blood test after<br />the 6 months long treatment and tested negative to the virus. Amazing<br />treatment! 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I have more knowledge about it at :<br />http://twistwriter.com/what-are-the-branches-of-biologyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14490699901908678406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-3820610189273501392012-12-30T03:20:00.091-08:002012-12-30T03:20:00.091-08:00The clock is ticking for DSM-5's Somatic Sympt...The clock is ticking for DSM-5's Somatic Symptom Disorder<br /> <br /> <br />Action required today on time sensitive issue:<br /> <br />The texts for DSM-5 are in the process of being finalized and the SSD Work Group is being asked to review their proposed criteria for SSD. This requires intense public pressure for 11th hour changes and I need your help, today.<br /> <br />If you haven't already done so, please click on the link to my joint commentary with Allen Frances, M.D., on the perils of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 category "Somatic Symptom Disorder" on his blog at Psychology Today.<br /><br />For three years, Dr Frances has been at the forefront of public criticism of many of the APA’s controversial proposals for new disorders for DSM-5 and for the lowering of thresholds for existing disorders.<br /><br />Dr Frances had chaired the Task Force for DSM-IV, was chair of Department of Psychiatry at Duke and is currently professor emeritus, Duke. He is strongly opposing the SSD criteria.<br /><br />Visiting his blog and leaving a comment on our post (however brief) will help demonstrate to the DSM-5 SSD Work Group and Task Force the level of concern for this new category.<br /><br />SSD is going to hurt all patient groups, but especially the so-called "Functional somatic syndromes" - IBS + SSD; CFS + SSD; FM + SSD but also MS + SSD; cancer + SSD; coronary disease + SSD; diabetes + SSD...because SSD can be applied to all illnesses and conditions.<br /><br />In the DSM-5 field trials, 26% of the "functional somatic" study group were coded with SSD; 15% of the "diagnosed illness" group (cancer and coronary disease patients) and 7% of the "healthy" control group met the criteria for an additional diagnosis of SSD.<br /><br />Professor, now Sir Simon Wessely, has presented at DSM-5 symposia and Professors Michael Sharpe and Francis Creed are members of the DSM-5 Work Group for "Somatic Symptom Disorders." <br /><br />What goes through to DSM-5 will likely influence the revision of ICD-10 to ICD-11. Already Prof Francis Creed, who advises the ICD-11 working group for the revision of the "Somatoform Disorders," is pushing "Bodily Distress Disorder" to replace the ICD-10 "Somatoform Disorders." BDD is said to encompass the DSM-5 "Somatic Symptom Disorder" construct. <br /><br />There isn't very much time left before the DSM-5 texts are finalized for the publishers.<br /><br />Please visit Dr Frances' post, today, leave a comment and then repost this link on other platforms and forward to all your contacts. <br /><br />http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201212/mislabeling-medical-illness-mental-disorder/<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-14401701876662058202012-06-22T21:42:40.051-07:002012-06-22T21:42:40.051-07:00Very good read....wow! Thank you and best wishes ...Very good read....wow! Thank you and best wishes for your continued health and research.Rachel and Pia's Cottage https://www.blogger.com/profile/07361889081392186527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-86664198531712646132012-05-11T13:09:54.173-07:002012-05-11T13:09:54.173-07:00In the next few days, I plan to post further notes...In the next few days, I plan to post further notes on the presentation by Joel E. Dimsdale, MD, at the DSM-5 Track at the APA's Annual Conference in Philadelphia.<br /> <br />The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Updates on Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for DSM-5 (Part III)<br /><br />Monday, May 7, at 9 a.m. – 12 noon, in Room 103B at the Pennsylvania Convention Center<br /><br />Chair: Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H. Co-Chair: David J. Kupfer, M.D.<br /><br /><br />Presenters:<br /><br />1. DSM-5 Proposals for Somatic Symptom Disorders<br /><br />Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D.<br /><br /> <br />At the end of a brief presentation, Dr Dimsdale, Chair of the Somatic Symptom Disorders Work Group, took a number of questions from the audience around proposals for CSSD and Conversion disorder.<br /> <br />One questioner asked: Chronic fatigue syndrome has not been a part of the DSM-IV so far. Would there be any place for that in the DSM-5?<br /> <br />Dr Dimsdale's response was: That's an important question. Chronic fatigue is an important, distressing, disabling condition - it is remarkably heterogeneous...remarkably heterogeneous. We feel that some patients with chronic fatigue would meet the criteria for CSSD - some wouldn't.<br /> <br />Questioner responds: And what would be the cut off point...or what would be the criteria to include some and exclude others?<br /> <br />Dr Dimsdale: Well, chronic fatigue is really almost a poster child for medically unexplained symptoms as a diagnosis - it's a very, very heterogeneous disorder and we would say that the B type criteria are defining. Now, I have friends with chronic fatigue - some of them would meet these criteria and some wouldn't - so if a person is unable to put this down or unable to get beyond the...who is just stuck with the B type considerations, we would consider that to be having CSSD.meagendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05471219964587175999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-8524638750973069982012-05-07T07:08:35.133-07:002012-05-07T07:08:35.133-07:00These are three "Severity Specifiers" pr...These are three "Severity Specifiers" proposed for SSD: Mild, Moderate, Severe.<br /><br />"Somatic Symptom Disorder is a disorder characterized by persistency, symptom burden, and excessive or maladaptive response to somatic symptoms. There is a considerable range of severity. Typically, the disorder is more severe when multiple somatic syptoms are present. In addition to fulfilling criteria A and C, the following metrics may be used to rate severity:<br /><br />Mild: only 1 of the B criteria fulfilled<br />Moderate: 2 or more B criteria fulfilled<br />Severe: 2 or more B criteria fulfilled plus multiple somatic symptoms"<br /><br />------<br /><br />Note that the criteria for CSSD in the previous draft, released in May 2011, had:<br /><br />"B. Excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to these somatic symptoms or associated health concerns: At least two of the following must be present."<br /><br />but this has been reduced to "At least one of the following", presumably to accommodate Simple Somatic Symptom Disorder within what had been the CSSD criteria. <br /><br />(Last year the criteria for CSSD had required two from (1), (2) and (3) and a symptom duration of greater than 6 months while the criteria for SSSD had required only one from (1), (2) and (3) and a symptom duration of greater than one month.)<br /><br />Note also that the three Severity Specifiers" for SSD: Mild, Moderate, Severe may potentially be intended to correspond to three newly proposed categories in ICD-11 Somatoform Disorders section. <br /><br />In the ICD-11 Alpha drafting platform (which is a work in progress), the Somatoform Disorders categories are currently renamed to "Bodily Distress Disorders". There are three new categories listed:<br /><br />05A08.00 Mild bodily distress disorder<br />05A08.01 Moderate bodily distress disorder<br />05A08.02 Severe bodily distress disorder<br /><br />These three new category suggestions have no definitions or descriptive parameters visible in the Alpha draft so it isn't possible to determine at this stage what disorders these newly suggested terms might be intended to capture or how they would relate to the existing somatoform disorders categories in this section of ICD-11. <br /><br />Suzy Chapman<br />http://dxrevisionwatch.wordpress.commeagendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05471219964587175999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-64667551255279311792012-05-07T07:00:25.802-07:002012-05-07T07:00:25.802-07:00These are the criteria for J00 Somatic Symptom Dis...These are the criteria for J00 Somatic Symptom Disorder<br /><br />http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision/Pages/proposedrevision.aspx?rid=368<br /><br /><br />J 00 Somatic Symptom Disorder<br /><br />Updated April-27-2012<br /><br />Proposed Revision<br /><br />Somatic Symptom Disorder<br /><br />Criteria A, B, and C must all be fulfilled to make the diagnosis:<br /><br />A. Somatic symptoms: One or more somatic symptoms that are distressing and/or result in significant disruption in daily life.<br /><br />B. Excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to these somatic symptoms or associated health concerns: At least one of the following must be present.<br /><br />(1) Disproportionate and persistent thoughts about the seriousness of one’s symptoms.<br /><br />(2) Persistently high level of anxiety about health or symptoms<br /><br />(3) Excessive time and energy devoted to these symptoms or health concerns<br /><br />C. Chronicity: Although any one symptom may not be continuously present, the state of being symptomatic is persistent (typically >6 months).<br /><br />Specifiers<br /><br />Predominant Pain (previously pain disorder). This category is reserved for individuals presenting predominantly with pain complaints who also satisfy criteria B and C of this diagnosis. Some patients with pain may better fit other psychiatric diagnoses such as adjustment disorder or psychological factors affecting a medical condition.meagendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05471219964587175999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-45331506384885869822012-05-07T06:59:02.198-07:002012-05-07T06:59:02.198-07:00I'd like to add a few remarks about the differ...I'd like to add a few remarks about the differences between the second draft and this third draft, which was released on May 2. As these comments have a short line measure, I will post over several comments.<br /><br />Following evaluation of the results of the DSM-5 field trials, the SSD Work Group has decided that "Simple Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSSD)" is "a less severe variant of CSSD." <br /><br />The Work Group is now proposing to merge CSSD and SSSD into one category and is suggesting dropping the word "Complex" from the category term.<br /><br />So the latest proposal is that the previously proposed new categories, CSSD and SSSD, would be rolled into one and called Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD).<br /><br />The latest proposed category names for the revision of the DSM-IV "Somatoform Disorders" now look like this:<br /><br />Somatic Symptom Disorders<br /><br />J 00 Somatic Symptom Disorder (combines CSSD and SSSD and drops the "Complex" word)<br />J 01 Illness Anxiety Disorder<br />J 02 Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)<br />J 03 Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition<br />J 04 Factitious Disorder<br />J 05 Somatic Symptom Disorder Not Elsewhere Classifiedmeagendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05471219964587175999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-48959452282635535962012-05-07T01:19:04.633-07:002012-05-07T01:19:04.633-07:00Thanks for the excellent blog, and submitting your...Thanks for the excellent blog, and submitting your comments on this horrible idea of CSSD.<br /><br />It is a worst nightmare to me, what might happen to me if that becomes formal and official.<br /><br />Thanks also for the history on Mr Beard whose 1869 American Nervousness has left us with this term & concept of neurasthenia. Truly, this book was a source to Wesley, to Straus over 100 years later? Not doubting, simply amazed, perhaps shocked.Sarah Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674395968982387023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-21735819798492270562010-04-16T18:02:36.757-07:002010-04-16T18:02:36.757-07:00"Fed up ... United Kingdom citizen" (Ric..."Fed up ... United Kingdom citizen" (Richard Lucas).<br /><br />Do you have any kind of conflict of interest axe to grind ?marcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695656481763778706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-73619952136319351372010-04-16T02:17:55.422-07:002010-04-16T02:17:55.422-07:00As much as I admire the NHS in the UK in many rega...As much as I admire the NHS in the UK in many regards, it being a much better and more humane way of treating a population than relying solely on private health care, I have to disagree with Richard and his concerns of the descriptions of ME treatment in the UK. I have had this illness for 40 long years now and it is quite true that there has been NO care available for me on the NHS AT ALL - other than CBT/ GET and psyche drugs - the latter causing very considerable iatrogenic harm (the former I haven't bothered with).<br />The UK sees ME as a psyche social illness no matter it's declarations of following the WHO ICD classification nor it's Chief Medical Officer's Report earlier this decade which insisted ME/CFS is a physical illness. Only behavioural and psychological therapies are mandated by NICE for people with ME.Lilpinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11480603897401811321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-40624019337204362462010-04-16T01:03:39.765-07:002010-04-16T01:03:39.765-07:00I have written, in my submission to the American P...I have written, in my submission to the American Psychiatric Association (click here http://www.mefreeforall.org/April.2457.0.html, need to be registered www.mefreeforall.org and logged in) that the proposed introduction of the category "Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder", into which M.E sufferers would be drawn and, also, the move to have CFS/ME (still conjoined) re-classified as a psychiatric disorder, in the next International Classification of Diseases (ICD) version of the World Heath Organisation (WHO) Handbook, firstly, maintains the tangled mess of two terms, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which, by polluting the data set, hampers research progress not only for M.E. but all other conditions.<br /><br />Furthermore, such classification would direct all patients, indiscriminately, to treatments developed for the management of psychiatric illnesses. Indeed, adverts for staff to join teams in a network of clinics established in the UK in 2004, often emphasise that a background in a psychiatric field would be an advantage.<br /><br />It seems excessive protectionism on the part of a profession, to seek these re-classifications, when they already have sole ownership of the treatments available for people with M.E., since these treatments - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) - are all that is available as things stand, recommended and practised by the very same doctors, predominantly psychiatrists, who advised the Government to fund them in the first place. It is rather like a cartel protecting an existing monopoly that is already scientifically and ethically bankrupt.<br /><br />All the evidence show that it isn't working for people with M.E., or making things worse for some (Twisk and Maes, September 2009). Yet, Government, the Medical Establishment and, most amazingly, national and local support groups are ploughing on, even calling for increased funding.<br /><br />It is ironic that it is for the painful economic reasons of a recession that the single strand promotion of treatments, which might cause M.E. sufferers even more pain, is being slowed, rather than the medical ones that it does not work or may cause harm.<br /><br />No other country has quite the same system of clinics as we do in the UK but every one does have the treatments administered at some level. This Research Psychologist and veteran M.E. sufferer since 1988 (22 years at time of writing) suggests that you do not follow our example.<br /><br />Dr John H Greensmith<br />drjohhngreensmith@mefreeforall.org<br />ME Free For All. orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-70072579910227709192010-04-15T15:10:41.447-07:002010-04-15T15:10:41.447-07:00Did you read my post at all? It has nothing to do ...Did you read my post at all? It has nothing to do with NHS per se - only with its capture by British psychiatrists when it comes to M.E. and CFS. <br /><br />If you do not believe that is a problem, then I suggest you read Magical Medicine by Dr. Malcolm Hooper:<br /><a href="http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/magical-medicine.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/magical-medicine.htm</a><br /><br />The committee that is trying to shove "Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder" into APA's DSM-5 is headed by BRITISH psychiatrist Michael Sharpe. The point is to get authorization for the CBT/GET autocrats both back in the UK - and in the U.S.<br /><br />If this was a blog about health care reform, I would have written about my frustration that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation that seems to think it's okay to deny people health care on the basis of their income - and where the very wealthy whine like spoiled brats about paying taxes to accomplish that goal. <br /><br />You would have heard my frustration that the media (except for PBS) just showed Democrat v. Republican talking heads instead of looking at what other nations are doing for health care. <br /><br />I favored a single payer system with a public option. We didn't get that.<br /><br />But that's not what this blog is about. It's about the effort to create a new psychiatric category "CSSD" for patients with a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome - which will be a terrible disaster if permitted to happen.<br /><br />Insurance companies will be able to treat patients with "CFS" worse than they already do, because of the discrimination that is permitted against people with mental illnesses (something that is also wrong, but that is a story for another day). Most disability insurance either does not pay for mental illnesses at all, or limits disability for the mentally ill to 3-5 years. Most health insurance companies either do not pay for mental illnesses at all, or limit doctor visits to, perhaps, 10 a year. (A great idea for schizophrenia ...) <br /><br />And, of course, the result would be more people misdiagnosed and undiagnosed; more people left to tumble into the Dickensian world of CFIDS impoverishment and decline. <br /><br />Now that you've spent so much time on a blog that I did not write, would you care to comment on the one I did?Mary Schweitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583106682242141031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-258776750986052102010-04-15T13:18:03.709-07:002010-04-15T13:18:03.709-07:00I'm getting a little fed up of seeing American...I'm getting a little fed up of seeing American commentators, usually of a right wing POV using the UK health system as an example of awfulness. My point was not that the the UK system is brilliant, merely that bad practice is not universal here. I've had good care from my GP, a fairly useless CBT based intervention from an ME clinic, and a year long battle with the Social Security system over my entitlement to benefit. I don't reaqlly think I have an argument with you - I'm just concerned to see the NHS, the best part of the post WW2 British settlement being dragged into arguments by US commentators with an axe to grind.Richard Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06600522000122688279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-59343828506035874472010-04-15T10:24:21.403-07:002010-04-15T10:24:21.403-07:00So to post again, but interestingly Richard seems ...So to post again, but interestingly Richard seems to contradict his comment here somewhat with <a href="http://richard-lucas.blogspot.com/2010/04/worry-illness-guilt.html" rel="nofollow">this on his blog.</a><br /><br /><i>"There are still vigorous remnants of that attitude to be encountered amongst medical professionals, those who decide eligibility for assistance and a lot of other folk who ought to know better. Charlatans and quacks offer ineffective and inappropriate cures, and in the UK appear to have successfully convinced Government agencies in the case of Graded Exercise Therapy."</i><br /><br />(They're much more than "remnants" if they've successfully convinced authorities re CBT/GET. They also sit in all the positions of power -- research committees, service management and so on.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00364328519308745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-75527050613957543582010-04-15T09:52:37.430-07:002010-04-15T09:52:37.430-07:00"Your examples of harsh treatment are not an ..."Your examples of harsh treatment are not an accurate description of current attitudes in the UK healthcare system."<br /><br />Richard, I am a UK citizen with ME (not "CFS/ME" whatever that is) and I can reassure Mary that she is entirely correct, and that you are wrong except perhaps in your own comfortable and protected experience. <br /><br />The NHS fails to recognise the existance of ME as a serious profoundly exertional disease (Hooper; Enlander; MERUK et al) and instead promotes the CBT model of "deconditioning and faulty beliefs" where GET is "safe" and CBT to "modify thoughts" (CMO Report) is promoted with nigh-fascistic zeal and exclusiveness, despite evidence from objective review that it causes people to work fewer hours and surveys that report it the biggest single generator of worsened outcome.<br /><br />Disability benefit guidelines have been rejected 10 times by the MEA. The NICE guidelines were roundly rejected by 18 out of 20 charities. Surveys by the 25% Group repeatedly confirm neglect and/or abuse as a norm.<br /><br />Young people are not infrequently forceably removed from families, adults refused disability living allowance and social support, and doctors on blogs joke about euthenising sufferers. A published study on nurses' opinions found most took a dim view of ME pts seeing them as "lazy bastards" or mentally ill. In what other disease do doctors feel it's okay to go online and blame the deceased for their own decline in health?<br /><br />Kumar and Clark's teaching textbook classifies ME in two places as a psychosomatic disorder while Trudy Chalder's Maudsley training video (see below) states that patients should be told to take a ten minute walk morning and evening even if they have a bad day/relapse because it is "not harmful".<br /><br />The MRC fund no biological research and the BMJ have a "preference" for psychobabble. The UK rejected the Fukuda definition in favour of an even worse idiopathic fatigue description (Oxford) now the very poor, unvalidated NICE definiton. Wessely and SHarpe advice the insurance industry while PD White deterred authorities like NICE from recommending disability support.<br /><br />I could go on but suffice to say I am sorry but you are completely ignorant to the personal and political experiences of the ME community as a whole. To back up what I have said please look at:<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/bGS45z" rel="nofollow">Training videos</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/9AHciN" rel="nofollow">Liverpool patient handout</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/c2wuLZ" rel="nofollow">The psychiatric view of ME/CFS: what is it?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/d46IET" rel="nofollow">Peter White's comments on the draft NICE guidelines</a><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/4nH5Wi" rel="nofollow">11 surveys which found high rates of adverse reactions with GET</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00364328519308745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-72612804744530220822010-04-14T10:22:17.745-07:002010-04-14T10:22:17.745-07:00As a United Kingdom citizen diagnosed with CFS/ME,...As a United Kingdom citizen diagnosed with CFS/ME, I have to say that I do not recognise the description you give of the treatment of CFS/ME patients in "England", as you call it. Your examples of harsh treatment are not an accurate description of current attitudes in the UK healthcare system. That there is considerable scope for improvement in the treatment of ME/CFS in the UK is undeniable, but that seems to be the case everywhere.Richard Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06600522000122688279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1345573145957924958.post-26866009303768147922010-04-14T09:46:44.825-07:002010-04-14T09:46:44.825-07:00Good Job!Good Job!KALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18263661395286591110noreply@blogger.com