dratalanta
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
And the evidence for this? Nil. The evidence of PACE is that ignoring chronic fatigue doesn't make it go away, and the main lesson of forty years of ME (mis)management is that the best thing for managing ME fatigue (and other symptoms) is to rest as required. Amazing - millions of years of evolution, and it seems that resting is often a useful response to fatigue, just like taking your hand out of a flame is a good idea when you feel it burning.A key assumption of the LP is that chronic fatigue arises from dysregulations of the central and autonomic nervous systems, thereby resulting in a “false alarm” that can be turned off through top-down mental processes.
Assuming chronic fatigue is a "false alarm" makes as much sense as the local garage offering to turn off the "chronic warning light" on your dashboard because they don't understand the computer codes on your car. Absent convincing evidence that the warning light is malfunctioning, most people in the latter situation would use their common sense and find a more expert garage.