RCGP refuses to change their classification of CFS as a mental health disorder

“Back in April The MEA wrote to the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to
ask them to change their decision to classify CFS as a mental health disorder in an important training document for GPs:

Care of People with Mental Health Problems.

We have now received a very disappointing reply.

The MEA has written back to the RCGP to ask them once again to change this inaccurate classification.”

RCGP reply dated 15 May:

“The group that developed the curriculum were aware of the difficulties of assigning this condition to a specific grouping and eventually elected to include it within the statement on 'Care of People with Mental Health Problems'.

It was a difficult decision but it was taken largely on the grounds that many specialist services are currentlyl configured and based in, or are linked to, psychology services. No assumptions should be drawn from this about the college's views on causality.”

MEA’s reply:
“If the RCGP is not prepared to reverse the decision to inaccurately classify CFS as a mental health disorder, we will raise our concerns with the All Party Parliamentary Group on ME when they next meet at the House of Commons.”

Full text and letters are available here as a brilliant PDF file:
The rcgp also known as the royal college of psycho wanna bees

And if GOYA would have still been alive, this would have been his reply, chappies from the Royal College of Psychiatrists aka GP's ... downloadable here ….....

ADDED 6.6.08 PS: the pictures that you can download are very effective but also, what shall I say, not to everyone's taste, so be WARNED......................