University Times, An Unhealthy Mind can lead to an Unhealthy Brain (2019) Tadjine

I mean, yes? But also: really, really no.

 

I've had some luck with - stress can trigger a heart attack, but you don't start treatment with lifestyle management and reducing stress. You'll have to treat the body and the heart first.

But here the stress-theory of 'sustained arousal' is the dominant one (Wyller).

 

Yeah, that's the metaphor I use as well. You can call all diseases the result of 'stress' -- but mysteriously we only treat chronic illness without a cure in this particular way. Bonus points for relapsing remitting, bonus points for an illness that affects more women than men, bonus points for 'apparently neuro'.

 

yeaaaaah.


Mayo clinic's potentially primary expert on ME and CFS is Leslie Sim. She is a psychologist who includes "conversion disorder" as one of her 5 areas of clinical expertise, along with chronic pain, fatigue, and POTS. One of her published articles is titled, "Covert Video Monitoring in the Assessment of Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Children" (2012). Her bio indicates she is primarily a pediatric psychologist.

I suspect she is Mayo's default expert on ME and CFS because hers is the only clinician's name who pops up when using Mayo's menu system to find a doctor for "chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Creepy.

Well today Harvard joined the ranks of pseudoscience re: ME, but we'll see how long they stay that way. It really does read, though, like someone died in 1993 and rose from the dead in 2019 to write this, without any knowledge of the intervening time.

That has to be a term: research zombies. I like it.