Researchers who have ME/CFS and who promote a psychosomatic explanation for ME/CFS?

Some who say they had ME/CFS and recovered like Parker and Landmark and Gupta have done or are doing really awful research on their versions (Lightning Process) of BPS nonsense which they claim cured them.
 
Hutan said:
Paul Garner
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https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/25/paul-garner-on-his-recovery-from-long-covid/
The roller-coaster that followed lasted for months, with sudden waves of illness and malaise, like being hit by a cricket bat. I had a foggy head, acutely painful calf, upset stomach, tinnitus, aching all over, breathlessness, dizziness, arthritis in my hands, weird sensation in my skin, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion and body aches throughout. I had ringing in my ears, intermittent changes to my heartbeat, and dramatic mood swings. After three months I was unable to be out of bed for more than three hours at a stretch. My arms and legs were permanently fizzing.

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I learnt that I could change the symptoms I was experiencing with my brain, by retraining the bodily reactions with my conscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. Over the following weeks, with support, I learnt how to do this. I suddenly believed I would recover completely. I stopped my constant monitoring of symptoms. I avoided reading stories about illness and discussing symptoms, research or treatments by dropping off the Facebook groups with other patients. I spent time seeking joy, happiness, humour, laughter, and overcame my fear of exercise. I started slowly with some graded physical activity on a bicycle. Within two weeks I surprised myself with an hour of Military Fitness training in Sefton Park with my friends. I was overjoyed, with all the great memories of running around the park with my friends. I began to build back my strength.
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Oh wow. I'm almost certain this was a spontaneous recovery unrelated to the happy thoughts.

It sounds a lot like some experiences in my own life. There have been times of severe depression/anxiety ebbing and flowing in my life. At times, I'd start some new mental habit that seems like it'd be helpful, stuff like "focus on the sounds around you as much as possible because it's something easy to focus on, and if you're focusing on that, you can't be focusing on anxiety". And I'd start feeling better and better.

Only later did I realize it was the other way around. I was actually slowly feeling better for some other reason, which gave me the motivation to try some mental health habits. I reversed the causality by mistake. And I was sure of it when the next times I'd fall into a depression, my miracle habits didn't work.
 
forestglip said:
It sounds a lot like some experiences in my own life. There have been times of severe depression/anxiety ebbing and flowing in my life. At times, I'd start some new mental habit that seems like it'd be helpful, stuff like "focus on the sounds around you as much as possible because it's something easy to focus on, and if you're focusing on that, you can't be focusing on anxiety". And I'd start feeling better and better.

Only later did I realize it was the other way around. I was actually slowly feeling better for some other reason, which gave me the motivation to try some mental health habits. I reversed the causality by mistake. And I was sure of it when the next times I'd fall into a depression, my miracle habits didn't work.
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Sorry to revive a very random old thread but I relate to this so strongly. Even specifically with ME/CFS, my onset had all these ups and downs and every "up" started with some new little technique or cognitive reframing, and it was only the repeated experience of these seeming to work the first time and then not working at all during the next downturn that I realized the causality was the other way around.

I guess for at least some of us, when we're recovering, an interest in trying stuff like this is one of the first things to go up, before we even realize we're feeling better.

I can't know if this applies to any specific recovery story, but I suspect it applies to a good fraction of them. I think it might also have something to do with the popular feeling that we can secure our health by thinking right and by making the right little lifestyle changes -- many people have probably come out of a spell of depression or low energy thinking whatever they started doing right 'before' the upturn cured them.
 
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