ME/CFS shares many of the same characteristics as other functional disorders (acute/subacute onset often after a physical or mental stressor, fluctuating symptoms often moment to moment or day to day, and disability level out of proportion to exam findings/pathology). Also, it is highly comorbid with them and responds to similar treatment frameworks.
Circular definitional games with words.
People who have recovered present the same as those who don’t and they almost always treat it as a functional disorder.
Define 'recovered', without using subjective assessment measures.
Rejecting psychological and behavioral contributors because they’re seen as invalidating is itself very common in people with somatic symptom disorder.
Which is a perfect double bind. Not to mention false.
If there was a disease process underlying ME/CFS it would have already been found. No matter the cause, organ damage/disease is quite easily identified with current tools – clinical exam, routine bloodwork, and diagnostic imaging.
Brave claim, sparky. Very brave.
There is way too much emphasis placed on the findings in the biomedical research. They are often contradictory and unreplicated with very poor methodology.
Oh the irony. Best you stay away from mirrors.
No findings are said to have clinical relevance because they often don’t make sense with the patient presentation.
Which is a typical situation before the underlying mechanisms of just about any phenomenon are understood.
Perceiving clinicians as incompetent and malicious because they acknowledge the clear psychosocial factors that led to the development and maintenance of the condition is just a projection.
That characterisation is pure sophistry, and projection on your part, par excellence. You have been trained well.
Unfortunately the ME/CFS community is unlikely to see any progress until they can acknowledge that their symptoms are not signs of damage/disease, psychosocial factors are involved in their illness and functional disability, and that none of this is their fault and it is their responsibility to recover (with guidance and support of course!)."
Unfalsifiable, cowardly, and cruel. A complete abandonment of your professional responsibilities, standards, and ethics.
Your blame game is a tactic straight from witch trials and the Spanish inquisition. It's just DARVO all the way down.
You really don't do self-awareness, do you.
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