I love your blogs Anil! You are a very good writer. I still point people to your earlier blogs if they want to understand the whole cbt/get saga I can’t imagine how much effort it must be for you to write something like this
Thank you Anil for this excellent blog! I know that just sitting, thinking and writing this amount of material can be shattering for pwME. I hope some send this out to the powers that be. It is brutal that the medical profession still doesn't know diddly about ME. Funny story in a rather grim or negative sort of way: I had two visits to the same doctor about a year apart. Both times I said I have ME. Both times, he had no idea what it is, despite me providing excellent government info the first time. Which unfortunately elicited the usual eye-rolling treatment. I know medical professionals have tons to read, but was hoping the informative government info might have made an impression. I'm in Canada. To avoid the eye-rolling, or worse, the yelling, coldness etc., now when medical people ask, I just say Health Canada has good info about ME. I don't explain what it is. Why chance getting some kind of negative treatment again. I hope that very soon, pwME in countries that still promote CBT/GET will also be able to say there is good info on their government websites. And, I hope that very soon my governments will actively engage with the medical professions, and teach them about ME; not just have it on a website. Thanks again, Anil.
