Chronic fatigue syndrome at the RSM ...

There has been quite a bit of press lately about the CFS conference brought to us by the psycho boys at the club of physicians.

Now I have highlighted in an earlier BLOG what a delightful programm they have put together and after seeing Dr Enlander’s email to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph who knew more about ME as shown in their recent article then the CBT brigade put together after decades of porkies and so, I decided to have a look at the site of the physicians and it is amazing if you do that. Let me just quote the text from their site, and then see what you think:

"Chronic fatigue syndrome
Monday 28 April 2008
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

The aim of this meeting is to take a broad look at chronic fatigue syndrome, examining its nature and definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical assessment and diagnosis, the patient perspective, and various approaches to treatment. This is a scientific conference and there will be an emphasis on an evidence based approach throughout."

So, the aim is to have a broad look and the way you go about that is by only inviting CBT people. Which is the logical way of doing things obviously.

Apparently it is a scientific conference but all evidence is excluded from being told to whoever forked out some money to be there…

Now, if you read the following very careful then they should send all the CBT people home again. You see, they say the emphasis will be "on an evidence based approach throughout."

As there is no evidence for CBT in ME it will be a conference without speakers, must be very interesting… also very interesting is the wording “various approaches to treatment” by that they mean CBT, CBT, CBT, CBT, CBT, CBT, CBT, GET, GET, GET, GET and nothing else…

Now I must say the most interesting wording however is “clinical assessment,” do they mean by that to throw kids in the pool, GETting children taken away from their parents and forgetting to read a proper guideline so they actually know what ME is before they see a patient???

Trying to exclude all other diseases or will they continue as they have been doing by making the waste bin as large as they can by telling docs not to do any investigations and so, so that a lady is being diagnosed with ME, yet it turned out to be a slow working thyoid that was easily cured once the doc got the hang of the medication ie thyroxine dosage. It only took 12 years of misery, before a curious doc thought, lets do some tests.....

It is a bit like saying you go on a safari in Africa to see wild lions, but as those animals might be dangerous you first change the name to wild animal, then you change the definition to an animal that can walk and then you come home with pictures of a one inch tall penguin for that matter and you say, look I was just a yard away from this wild animal…. And see, he is not dangerous at all…

And before you write, yes I do know that you won’t see many penguins on a safari in Africa, at least I think so....

But in short this is delusional sychiatry, at its best, brought to you by the physicians who have always wanted to be a psychiatrist but didn’t dare to tell their parents that, as the general idea is that it is difficult to say with certain psychiatrists if they are the doctors or the patients ... And no this is not a joke, just go to a psycho conference and have a look at a hundred psycho boys and then you will know as well... Yes I know, there are many normal and pleasant psycho people who can still think and so, but at the KINGDOM of delusional psychiatry you won't find them, it is that simple as the Clarkman would say.

But please don’t tell professor CBT this or the physicians as they might feel haraassssseeedddd and so…

So if you do go to the Society, either to see a conference without speakers, or to protest, please be quiet, otherwise you risk being locked up in GETanomo for asking questions or should I say asking questions that any normal human being or a good doctor, who wants to know something about any disease in particular and ME in general, should ask, or is it the other way around, uhum, funny thing that malingering…

Oh and please remember that if you do go on the 28th , or you have to see a CBT fanatic for a neurologial illness at any other time, that you do what this guy is doing, the best protection against delusional psychiatrists there is,.... by far…..

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