UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

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One thing that seemed to be taken on board by DHSC was that ME/CFS services should not be under psychiatry. Of course people can get re-diagnosed but the draft template for ME/CFS seems to steer clear of any mention of psychological medicine.

That might of course change since this is only a consultation exercise with ForwardME.

Everything seems to have shifted towards rehabilitation anyway. Psychiatry hasn't really been relevant in ME/CFS, other than some prominent ideologues being psychs themselves, but even that was mostly cover for generic rehab that was always meant to be carried out by therapists.

The language seems to follow along as well, and never really needed psychological justifications anyway. Even the new exercise rehab folks doing the same old BS with LC mostly don't bother with attributing this to deconditioning, they merely mention it in passing and go ahead as if it's the problem anyway, in fact pretty much have dropped all pretense of having to justify anything, and throw the old terms as needed.