Psychological therapies - Discussion thread

[Suffolkres]

I am intrigued Robert that you were in Queens in 1999.
There was a tv documentary with Findlay.
I believe I have a recording somewhere. Featured a young dark haired man 'greatly helped' by their desensitisation intervention.
I wonder if that was you?!!!

Also, a friend and Educational psychologist Steve Phillip, 's wife was admitted but she did not benefit.

It's on an old video tape!....

 

[Robert 1973]

I am intrigued Robert that you were in Queens in 1999.
There was a tv documentary with Findlay.
I believe I have a recording somewhere. Featured a young dark haired man 'greatly helped' by their desensitisation intervention.
I wonder if that was you?!!!

Also, a friend and Educational psychologist Steve Phillip, 's wife was admitted but she did not benefit.

As far as I’m aware, Findlay wasn’t still working at Queen Square by then. I only ever saw him in Romford, and it certainly wasn’t me on TV.

I wrote about my experience in hospital here: http://strangerandstranger.net/miscellanea.htm#perceptions

 

[Robert 1973]

I have found that so many therapists think this is helpful advice. It wasn't helpful even when there were other things to focus on. Just the same sort of truism your family or friends might parrot at you.

Sorry for your experience, it sounds hard.

I was grateful that she friendly, and that the CBT I was subjected to (by an OR) was much more moderate than PACE type CBT. Overall my experience there was mixed: some good, some bad. I just wished that Findley had had to courage to say to me and publicly what I believe he knew – that someone who has had severe ME/CFS for 7 years (as I had then) was unlikely to recover, through no fault of their own, that they should be helped to prepared for a life of illness and disability, and that there was a desperate need for better services and high-quality biomedical research – just as there is now, 27 years later. But that is drifting off-topic.

 

[Suffolkres]

As far as I’m aware, Findlay wasn’t still working at Queen Square by then. I only ever saw him in Romford, and it certainly wasn’t me on TV.

I wrote about my experience in hospital here: http://strangerandstranger.net/miscellanea.htm#perceptions

Thank you for sharing Robert.
It brought me back with sharp focus and an overwhelming sense of buried grief.

In 1999, 2000, I was being regraded as a 'harming parent' .....
In 2001, my son then 17, was critically ill having suffered a pesticides poisoning on top of his ME, diagnosed by said paediatrician in 1996.
Everything you wrote strikes a chord....
I can sympathise and identify.

That's why I have continued to fight the fight for over 25 years.

United we stand.

 

[MrMagoo]

Are we the only special little flowers who can’t be told we may face a life of disability?
I’m pretty sure if you’re unlucky enough to get a cancer or MND or MS they let you know it’s going to affect and maybe shorten your life.
Why do we have to think about other things and pretend it will get better, it’s just a “phase”?