About the video: luminescentfeeling wrote: Training video from the British Psychiatric profession to 'teach' family Doctors (GP) that ME/CFS CFIDS patients are mentally ill, are not suffering from a neurological/immune disease, and can thus be 'treated' with psychological interventions such as behavioural therapy (CBT), Graded Exercise (GE) and Pacing.
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Claims made in Part 1 of this video about ME/CFS include:

1) Patients are likely to argue and be difficult people to deal with and cause Doctors - 'frustration'.

2) Have false 'preset ideas' on what causes their illness - such as a 'virus'.

3) Patients believe viruses have damaged their muscles and link this to their condition.

4) People with 'all or nothing' approach to life - develop ME/CFS.

5) Patients associate symptoms with activity - causing disabilty.

6) 75% of patients will be depressed/anxious - both in Hospital and Primary care settings.

7) Patients who feel 'loss of enjoyment' should take anti-depressents - even if not clinically depressed.

8) There is no underlying nerve damage in ME/CFS.

9) ME/CFS is the same thing as chronic fatigue - and this 'fatigue' is directly related to disability and life-style.

10) Patients 'beliefs' can affect how well they will 'engage' in treatement'.

11) Do not correct patients and 'put them right' on their false views in a consultation. Instead, incorporate patients false beliefs [of a 'virus'] into a complex theory of causation that supports 'a number of factors' - so to not scare the patient off.
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N:B Although dated, this video is still distributed in 2008.

N:B In 2002, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer for England/Wales) said:

''"Patients suffer their symptoms being ignored, not being taken seriously, labelled as hypochondriacs, urged to pull themselves together."

''CFS/ME should be classed alongside other diseases such as multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease''.
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Question:

How then, is the psychiatric profession legally allowed to produce information like this - if they have been ordered by higher powers not to?

Answer:

Because this is what you think, because that would be the moral decision - to STOP disinformation that harms/kills patients.

Politics is never moral.

Public statements by Government ministers mean nothing - if they have a lot to lose by revealing the cause of ME/CFS.

ME/CFS is a politicised illness because the Government know the cause. (Most likely Pesticides).