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Psychology Today: In Search of a Coherent Understanding of ME/CFS and Long Covid, Jake Hollis

Discussion in 'General ME/CFS news' started by Wyva, Feb 15, 2025.

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  1. Hutan

    Hutan Moderator Staff Member

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    Checking out his Linked In and PsychologyToday Profiles, he has claimed to be fully recovered in one place, but notes that he is on a journey in another.
    And, in the article he is back to claiming recovery:
    He seems to only have his 'The Fatigue Psychologist' practice. As far as I can see, he is only available for online consultations, on Monday and Tuesday.
    So, I'd suggest that he has not in fact recovered and some of the material he is putting out is misleading. It must be confusing when you have been trained in the power of the mind to not be able to cure yourself of ME/CFS.
     
    Hutan, Feb 15, 2025
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    "The prospect of making sense of your supposedly “medically unexplained” symptoms as a potentially reversible state of dysregulation and dyshomeostasis across multiple bodily systems lends itself to possibility, hope, and agency."

    Sounds like he is dreaming up a new therapy or just doing a hash-up of the current ones....we must sort out our emotional dysregulation, our psychosocial stress and once back to homeostasis - we will all be skipping merrily towards the sunset....

    I have found accepting the non-reversible state of my ME more useful for my psychological and physical health.
     
    hibiscuswahine, Feb 16, 2025
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    People laughed at Trump for suggesting using bleach to “cleanse” the body of Covid 19 yet these people get whole careers making even less medical sense of ME/CFS and LC “treatment”.
    I’m feeling there’s some “inflammation” in my body just hearing about this bunkum…
     
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    A fairy tale.
    The Narrative Rules All.
    An entire profession, even. (With some honourable exceptions.)
     
    Sean, Feb 16, 2025
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    Jake Hollis I wish you well, but please stop writing articles like this that may make you feel good about yourself and feel like you are helping, but which can cause enormous distress and harm to those of us not as fortunate as you to recover.

    Your story is not new or special, it is a repetition of one we have heard from others, most of whom are spreading their story to make money from selling false hope to desperate people.

    Have you invented a jolly name yet for your therapy? Lightning Process, the Switch, the Crysallis effect, Optimum health, Reverse therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy,... are all taken.

    This stuff is not helpful. It leads to gaslighting, judgement, financial loss, false hope, crashes and deterioration.
     
    Trish, Feb 16, 2025
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    No fundamental difference to this, IMHO:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(Byrne_book)

    Sold over 30 million copies, more than $300 million in sales, and also made into two films.

    The only reason this toxic drivel fantasy persists throughout the ages is because enough people – and a few more than that – desperately want it to be true, and it pays very well for those selling. There will always be a market for it, and always be those who will gleefully prey on the desperate.

    :grumpy:
     
    Sean, Feb 16, 2025
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