Article: The Ripple Effects of Stigma — chroniclivingtherapy.com

[Chandelier]

The Ripple Effects of Stigma - Chronic Living Therapy

Article looking at how the false psychologisition of biomedical conditions like ME causes stigma, skews research and denies funding/support.

chroniclivingtherapy.com

2300-word article.

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THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF STIGMA​

This post looks at the effects of ‘psychologisation’ and stigma – in particular as it relates to M.E. (or ME/CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). The effects are far-reaching and have blocked decent support, research, treatments and media coverage of this illness for decades.

Therapists need to understand both the impact of this history on patients and the way the illness itself requires therapists to develop new tools and approaches to their work.

It’s a long post – take it in stages if you need to. It’s broad rather than deep, and gives you lots of leads and links to chase up.
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[Sean]

Therapists need to understand both the impact of this history on patients and the way the illness itself requires therapists to develop new tools and approaches to their work.

Or just leave us the eff alone.

I have increasingly serious doubts about the value of the whole psycho-therapeutic approach for the vast majority of patients and conditions.

Broadly speaking, the more I see of it and the 'evidence' for it, the worse it all gets.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Or just leave us the eff alone.

As fast as I can see this post comes from Joan Crawford's group. I think it is a plea to psychotherapists whose patients happen to have ME/CFS to realise how that impacts management of other problems.

 

[JellyBabyKid]

The Ripple Effects of Stigma - Chronic Living Therapy

Article looking at how the false psychologisition of biomedical conditions like ME causes stigma, skews research and denies funding/support.

chroniclivingtherapy.com

2300-word article.

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THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF STIGMA​

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This post looks at the effects of ‘psychologisation’ and stigma – in particular as it relates to M.E. (or ME/CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). The effects are far-reaching and have blocked decent support, research, treatments and media coverage of this illness for decades.​

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Therapists need to understand both the impact of this history on patients and the way the illness itself requires therapists to develop new tools and approaches to their work.​

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It’s a long post – take it in stages if you need to. It’s broad rather than deep, and gives you lots of leads and links to chase up.​

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I just had a very quick skim, but this looks a very thorough and well-referenced article.

As with racism or any other stigmatising behaviour, attitudes towards M.E. inform the life experiences of those who are targeted

This could genuinely be a helpful resource for therapists trying to support people with ME/CFS who do need therapy, and need their therapist to understand the wider context that that exists within.

Especially the history and the impact of stigmatization,.to ensure that they are not automatically assuming that the illness is the thing that needs treating psychologically, but instead that people need support with their experience of living with it

One of the cruelest ironies of the way that M.E. has been falsely ‘psychologised’ is that patients are (quite reasonably) scared to access psychological support even as they face the devastation this illness causes in their lives, and the lives of their families. Many are scared to approach therapists for fear of further gaslighting and undermining.

 

[Sean]

As fast as I can see this post comes from Joan Crawford's group. I think it is a plea to psychotherapists whose patients happen to have ME/CFS to realise how that impacts management of other problems.

Fair enough. I may have misunderstood it.

Though I generally remain deeply sceptical about the state of psychotherapy and its actual value. At best it mostly remains a tangled mess of inadequately supported claims and practices.