Chapter in The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition

Uuhhhh.. citation? Of course there is no citation for this. There have been multiple studies on the mental health of ME patients and they all found no significant differences with the general population outside of what should be expected of any illness and how it impacts quality of life and basic sustenance. This is beyond lazy and straight up manufacturing supporting evidence out of hot ass air.

Why is it OK for them to just make shit up like this? This is pure speculation and projection on their part, falsified by actual research. They know this. They don't care because prejudice and confirmation bias leads people who aren't familiar with this disease to not actually check whether their claims have any truth.

 

Remarkable, even when their theory doesn't hold up to examination, they still say they're probably correct and the data is wrong.

 

They will tell you have depression or a somatoform disorder; they will offer you a treatment: antidepressants, psychotherapy and exercise. If you don't get better, i.e. if you "fail", this will be your fault, and your fault alone. This may lead to feelings of desperation, including maybe suicidal thoughts, but "medicine" can say "we did our best", and for 1 or 2 years you may be hopeful and not a pain in the ass of others, especially doctors.

 

That's clearly because they keep pronouncing leviosa wrong! Which is still better than pronouncing nektu wrong, wouldn't want to bring demons into this world with such a simple mistake.

 

The person who posted this originally has added this link:

"The full text of Chapter 25 can be found here,

https://www.dropbox.com/s/54j6ya7u9vsik8u/Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry - Chp 25 - Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes - Michael Sharpe & Patrick O'Malley (Aug 2018).pdf"

The second sentence has dodgy grammar:

"...inadequately unexplained..."

which of course means adequately explained!

 

It might be entertaining to follow all of my BPS commentary that relates to the HP universe. A compilation would be hysterical, especially if set to the theme music.

 

Really? And where is that STRONG evidence?? I doubt you would see Sharpes and Weasels using that type of unjustified rhetoric in a scientific article, because they know that it's BS, but this is a book, so I guess you can do whatever you want if you follow the BPS logic.

And guess where most regular clinicians get their knowledge? Surely, they don't bother to read the actual research or check the references. They'll just read a book like this and then be very happy that all their preconceptions were just confirmed. Problem? Solution.