Catastrophizing, time to ditch the term? - ME/CFS Skeptic blog

Discussion in 'Other psychosomatic news and research' started by ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 5, 2024.

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    I remember Ellen Goudsmit once suggesting that the CBT model for ME/CFS treats us as if we are super wimps.
     
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    That is so frustrating. I'm trying to work out whether my frustration is clouding this at all but to me it feels like how on earth can they get away with that twisting of the interpretation into a win-win for them and no-win for patient. They seem determined that whatever result happened they had an answer for why it went back to that same presumption of mind-behaviour but a rather nonsense form which seems to resemble more everyday bigotry than the 'say what you see' scientific observation is supposed to involve.
     
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    Exactly.

    Very pleased and grateful you chose to stay here and keep contributing your invaluable insight and experience. :thumbsup:
    I would call that realistic, based on very hard earned lessons.

    The persistent failure to account for (actual) context by the psychosomatic club, including their influence of their own prejudices, is one of the most serious in this whole sordid story.
    All roads lead to psychosomatic, even when it doesn't, seems the distinguishing characteristic of the psychosomatic contribution, certainly for ME/CFS, and everything else stuffed into the PPS/MUS/FND/etc categories.

    The single most important fact about human psychology is that we largely see what we want to see, and there are no worse offenders than the psychosomatic club.

    (For the record, I do not dismiss the concept or possibility of psychosomatic influences, in general. But the field is clearly in a deep methodological and ethical cesspit entirely of its own making at this stage of its history, and virtually none of its claims can be taken seriously yet, let alone be safely allowed to be unleashed upon patients lives.)
     
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    What is the school of ‘positive psychology’? Is that really a thing? It sounds like a sciencey disguise for toxic positivity..
     
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    You're right on the mark there.
     
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    If doctors want to continue using this idea of pain catastrophizing by patients in a questionnaire there should be a second part to it with questions for the doctor and what their attitude is to the patient.
     
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    Yes it is a thing but likely to also be the basis of toxic positivity which I especially see in the wellness industry. It was not part of mental health practise when I was working a decade or so ago. Taken over by pop psychology and thousands or people who have become "health coaches" (cough - grifters).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology
     
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