A few points for my own edification:
There are still mental explanations taken as insults or reductions of the condition.
Not exactly.
It's something much more noxious than merely 'insulting' when someone presumes to tell you what is going on in your own mind and displays utter contempt for your own account.
Regarding minimizing the condition, I take issue with this on two fronts:
-The treatments and social policy that follow from mental explanations do minimize by suggesting that it can be cured or greatly ameliorated through force of will; sufferers should not be given much support and there is no need for scientific research.
-This is a particularly smarmy instance of virtue-signalling. I.e. 'I take mental illness seriously and don't minimize it, aren't I so enlightened and empathetic?". The flip side of this is that it's a charge of bigotry against those opposed to mental or 'biopsychosocial' explanations. Anybody speciously accused of being a bigot is entitled to getting quite pissed off.
Ultimately it comes down to 'what is actually true?' All of this focusing on 'feelings' and emotions surrounding the issue obfuscates and distracts from what actually matters - the search for answers. That suits BPS because it's conceptions have turned out to be incorrect and substantively void; it only really exists in feelings and 'hopes'. 'Insult' me all you want, I don't much give a damn; all I care about is cold, hard, true answers and your ideological dumpster-fire is blocking the way.
Because if it's the brain that produces chronic fatigue, does it make the pain less real?
Is this translation precise? To conflate mind and brain is incomprehensibly boneheaded but this is at least the second time I've seen this illogic. Shall we give MS patients CBT and Graded Coordination Therapy for their 'very real' but 'brain-produced' muscle weakness and ataxia?
Also, nobody knows what role the brain does play in the condition. Saying that the brain produces chronic fatigue in the condition might turn out to be quite misleading.