AmebaRegressionTherapy looks like a completely imaginary new age crypto-religion. Comes under freedom to worship IMHO but the slight danger is that it is pseudo medical as well.
The BBC just ran a story on the tragedy of a cherubic couple one of whom was in show business and died from cancer due to believing in detox / herxheimer beliefs etc.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/72396917-47b0-4aac-856f-e213c3a0c3fa
I lost my boyfriend to cancer 'conspiracy theories'
So people accept these projection / sympathetic magic based belief systems are potentially dangerous where they clash with reality and I wonder if there is a way to use that to keep the psychobabblers quiet on longcovid.
The Ameba type nuts are relatively easy to spot and do not scare me as much as those psychologists who deliberately try to ingratiate themselves with the establishment using pseudo science psychobabble, fudging experimental outcomes and doing real harm to individuals and sabotaging scientific research into ME in general, in collusion with insurers, by selling a wholesale fiction about the nature of the illnesses we face as a species but have not yet managed to understand. It has not even been 100 years since the discovery of penicillin, we are still crawling out of the dark ages after 65million years of primate evolution, of course we dont understand it all.
I think in the process of understanding the straw man of CFS will need to be dismantled and hope that ME will be radically and specifically redefined by experimental findings.
CFS is really the babblers best friend if not invention and acts as an unscientific catch-all diagnosis which the babblers use as a stereotype to catch the prejudice of the unwary and untrained and it is easier because they confound it with the stigma which the instinctive impulse to evade contagion creates i.e. the leper effect.
I think these psychologists barely know what they are doing, its just impulsive scamming, they are not masterminds, they are white coat criminals gaming the academic system. Freud was a tobacco marketer after the fashion of Anton Mesmer, not a scientist. They will continue to cause untold damage as long as they are allowed to and must be opposed. Which is why we should (and I certainly do) continue to value the work of
@dave30th
But I fully expect the babblers to try to continue using the same trick of deresolving the specificity of longcovid and trying to fuzz the picture by adding it to the CFS bucket. We ought to watch out for that and oppose it IMHO and be pedants and sticklers for scientific accuracy.