Improvement in indices of cellular protection after psychological treatment for social anxiety disorder, 2019, Mansson et al

Open access, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0668-2

 

So CBT now reverses aging?

 

Nah. Probably just makes it feel like you're living longer. You know, those half hours or so spent repeatedly filling in the same form probably felt like days.

 

Nope.

It shows that what has been labeled "anxiety" here is likely better explained by physiological processes that we don't understand yet. Especially as we know all too well that in clinical psychology, unexplained illness = health anxiety, they can't and don't differentiate and always argue for the same conclusion.

So typical causality reversal here, as is tradition. Mental health needs a full reboot, it's just embarrassing at this point.

 

What a waste of resources; an ego trip.

 

Psychological treatment can help social anxiety by giving patients techniques to help them. Things like reciting the alphabet or tapping your arm, taking deep breaths, things like that. They also do role play for situations. It is all designed to help with the flood of adrenalin in situations other people do not find threatening.

So even if it does what they say it is like giving someone with a broken leg a wheelchair; they might be able to move around a bit but it does nothing for the underlying problem.

It is also presented as a treatment which makes it less likely that anyone will research the question of why some people have such an overwhelming response to things that healthy people do not.

All this shows that these CBT proponents fail everyone, not just those with ME.